$1,680
Twain, Mark (1835-1910) Autograph Letter Signed, Elmira, New York, 20 June [c. 1874] Single paper bifolium; Farmington Avenue, Hartford stationery, with the address and Clemens's monogram printed in red; inscribed on two pages. To an unnamed publishing firm or bookseller, asking them to hold some books for him. Old folds, clean, in a bold blackish brown ink, 7 x 9 in. unfolded. "Gentlemen: Yes, I want them, but please lay them by for me, if it isn't too much trouble, for I am here summering till August, & if I keep accumulating books here I'll have too much luggage, shortly. I don't like to stow them in our new dwelling at Hartford, because it is full of builders and plumbers, yet, & they're a whoreson lot to thin out literature, as Shakespeare would say. "If this vol. 1 of The Chancellors [ The Lives of the Lord Chancellors by John Lord Campbell] has been sent through Brown & Gross [a stationery store on Asylum Street in Hartford] for me (as the bill seems to say,) all right-- they will pay for it & collect from me. I keep an account there. Yours truly, S. L. Clemens"
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
