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To Fanny C. Hesse
22 February 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(Paraphrase and transcript: CU-MARK, UCCL 12557)

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[written on the back of the check from John C. Merritt dated 19 February:]

Miss H. will please bank this with Bissell & place it to “personal” account.

S. L. C.

[check endorsed:] Saml. L. Clemens by A. H. Olmsted Atty. Pay Bank of New York (N.B.A.) or Order [George P. Bissell & Co.]1

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1Clemens wrote this note to his secretary on the back of John Merritt’s check (see UCCL 12556). George P. Bissell and Company were Clemens’s Hartford bankers and dealers in investment securities, whom he employed from 1876 until 1891. Bissell (1827–91) and Albert H. Olmsted (1842–1929) were the members of the firm. Both were Civil War veterans, having served in the Connecticut 25th Infantry, Bissell as a colonel, Olmsted as a sergeant (Geer 1876, 34, 119; Geer 1879, 35, 121).

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Paraphrase and transcript, CU-MARK.

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Geo. P. Bissell & Co. • Geo. P. - - - -