From Samuel L. Clemens and Thomas Nast
to Unidentified
November 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: CLjC, UCCL 12465)
(SUPERSEDED)

[in purple ink, sketch of sleeping cat and caption by SLC; in black ink, sketch of cat and caption by Thomas Nast:]

If by “we,” Mr. Warner means Hartford generally, it would have bectter become him to speak for himself alone, & not wantonly hurt the feelings of such of us who ‸as‸ can “draw & paint.”

Samℓ. L. Clemens
(“Mark Twain.”)

Hartford, Nov. ’77