To Oliver Wendell Holmes per American Publishing Company employee
15? September 1869 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS card with copy of The Innocents Abroad: MH-H, UCCL 12512)
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With respects of
Samℓ L Clements1
Explanatory Notes
Click to add citation to My Citations. 1Probably around the middle of September, the American Publishing Company sent at Clemens’s request a copy of The Innocents Abroad to Oliver Wendell Holmes, who responded on 26 September (see 30 Sept 1869 to Holmes, n. 1)
Source text(s):MS card sent with copy of SLC 1869, MH-H (call no. *AC85 H7375 Zz869c). The card was tipped into the book, presumably when it was rebound in half morocco, and the book is signed by Holmes on the inner flap (‘O W Holmes | Boston’) and on the flyleaf (‘O W Holmes’).
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