To Olivia S. (Susy) Clemens
25 December 1881 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, inscription in The Prince and the Pauper: NN-BGC, UCCL 10644)
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This copy is one of six copies
that were printed on India paper.
S L C
(No, there may have been eight.)
Dec. 1883.
to
those good-mannered and agreeable children,
susie and clara clemens,
this book
is affectionately inscribed
by their father.
To that good-mannered and
agreeable child
Susie Clemens
this book is affectionately
offered by
thHer Father the Author.
Hartford, Xmas 1881.
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MicroPUL, reel 2.
Provenance:
Sometime before 1939 the specially bound China paper first edition with its MS inscription was purchased by businessman William T. H. Howe (1874–1939); in 1940 Dr. Albert A. Berg bought and donated the Howe Collection to NN.
