To Hattie J. Gerhardt
22 February 1881 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS facsimile: eBay Live Auctions catalog, sale of 8 June 2005, lot 297, UCCL 10955)
Tuesday Eve.
Dear Mrs. Gerhardt—
Will you please ask your husband to write his name half a dozen times on each of the enclosed half-sheets & return them to me in the envelop which I herewith (intend to send, if I don’t forget it.) I wish to procure a letter of credit upon European banks; & he will understand that these signatures are to go to the banks, to be used in verifying the signature appended to his letter of credit.
I go to Boston tomorrow to remain till Friday, else I would look in, meantime, to see how the preparations for flight are progressing—for I shall need a few days notice in order to secure good berths in the French steamer.
I address myself to you because I have been acquainted with you longer than I have with your husband—so it comes handier.
Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens
Source text(s):Previous publication:
American Art Association catalog, 10 and 11 March 1924, lot 555, paraphrase; MicroPUL, reel 2.
Provenance:
The MS was offered for sale in 1924 from the collection of William F. Gable. It was owned in 1949 by Dorothy L. Pape of Cincinnati, who sent a handwritten transcript of it to Cyril Clemens; he donated it to CtHMTH in 1984. The MS was again offered for sale on eBay in 2005.
