July 19/82
Dear Osgood—
Won’t you please send to Commodore Rollingpin & get a photograph of Capt. Isaiah Sellers’ Monument in Bellefontaine Cemetery, & let our artist make a [⅔] or a full page picture of it. I stole my nom de plume from him, & shall have considerable to say about him, for out there he was “illustrious.”
Ys Truly
S L Clemens
P. S. And now, of course, the very man I want a favor of, would be the man whose house in Magazine street, we drove by without stopping at—Capt. John A. Stevenson. He has the article—my first—which made of Capt. Sellers so angry. Said he would give it to me, but at the time I didn’t think I needed [it. But] I do. Won’t you ask Bixby to get it for you? Say you want to see it, & will return it if required. And send Stevenson a White Elephant.
Ys
S L C