To James R. Osgood
16 May 1881 • Hartford, Conn.
(Sales catalog: correspondence card, listed in City Book Auction, 24 April 1948, no. 409, lot 102, UCCL 10435)
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[Many] thanks for the check for $400. I hope your ailment is better; I think maybe my lumbago medicine is all right, as I still survive.
Yours truly,
S. L. Clemens.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):Sales catalog, correspondence card, listed in City Book Auction, 24 April 1948, no. 409, lot 102.
Previous publication:
MicroPUL, reel 2.
Emendations and textual notes:
Hartford, May 16 ’81. • [reported, not quoted]slc • [monogram adapted from other correspondence cards of the time; see 7? May 81 to Webster]
Osgood— • Osgood. [dash following salutation adopted from 7 May 81 to Osgood and other 1881 letters]
[¶] Many • [no ¶] Many
