To James R. Osgood
6 February 1881 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card: Sotheby’s, New York, October 1996, UCCL 11962)
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Feb. 6.
slcMy Dear Osgood—
Mrs. Clemens informs me that I am going to the Papyrus orgie. A remark of that sort, emanating from that quarter, has this resemblance to the moving of the previous question: it is not debatable.
Truly Yrs
S L Clemens
Source text(s):MS, correspondence card, Sotheby’s, New York, October 1996.
Previous publication:
American Art Association catalog, 16 April 1925, lot 27, paraphrase; Bauman Rare Books catalog, undated, item 236; Superior Galleries catalog, 29 May 1993, lot 114, MS facsimile; Sotheby’s catalog, 29 October 1996, lot 224; MicroPUL, reel 2.
Provenance:
The MS was purchased at the Superior Galleries sale of 29 May 1993 by Victor and Irene Murr Jacobs, who sold it at Sotheby’s in 1996. It was laid in a copy of SLC 1881.
