To James R. Osgood and Co.
2 November 1881 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS facsimile: Aguttes Online auction catalog, sale of 3 April 2019, lot 728, CU-MARK, UCCL 12731)
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Nov. 2/81.
Dear Sirs:
When I was asking you for Voltaire’s "Age of Louis XIV" (which I want in English,) I forgot to say I also wanted the Memoirs of St Simon (in English.)
Ys truly,
S L Clemens
[letter is stamped:] james r. osgood & co. boston. nov 3 1881 [and docketed in red ink:] [“Mark Twain”]
Source text(s):MS facsimile, Aguttes auction catalog, sale of 3 April 2019, lot 728.
Provenance:
Albert Bigelow Paine saw this letter and had it transcribed; typescript in CU-MARK.
