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Add to My CitationsTo George Haven Putnam
26 March 1878 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card: Sotheby’s, New York,
October 1996, UCCL 01550)
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Hartford, Mch. 26/78

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Dear Sir:

Yes, I shall be very glad to talk four or five minutes, or rise in my place & excuse myself, (according to the earliness or the lateness of the hour.) One gets more gratitude for an excuse, sometimes, than for a speech; & I prefer gratitude even to applause.

Ys Truly

S. L. Clemens



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MS, correspondence card, collection of Victor and Irene Murr Jacobs, seen at Sotheby’s, New York, while awaiting sale in 1996.

glyphglyphPrevious publication:glyphAnderson Galleries catalog, 12–13 January 1911, no. 882, lot 657, partial publication; Sotheby’s catalog, 29 October 1996, no. 6904, lot 212, partial publication; MicroPUL, reel 1.

glyphglyphProvenance:glyphThe MS was offered for sale by Anderson Galleries in 1911; owned by Carl T. Naumburg in 1946 (Naumburg to Bernard De Voto, 5 Sept 1946, CU-MARK); bought from Seven Gables Bookshop by the Jacobses in September 1971; and sold through Sotheby’s in October 1996.