To
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
28 January 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, postal card, in pencil: Craven, UCCL 01303)
(SUPERSEDED)
28 January 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, postal card, in pencil: Craven, UCCL 01303)
(SUPERSEDED)
Hartford 28
I’m perfectly delighted! I would rather have captured you than any man I know. I have been in the doctor’s hands for 2 months, but your confession has brought me around again, my boy!1explanatory note
Ys Ever
S L C.
us postal card. write the address on this side—the message on the other | Thos. Bailey Aldrich, Esq | Ponkapog | Mass. [postmarked:]
Explanatory Notes
1
Nothing is known of Aldrich’s capture and confession.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Christie’s catalog, 10 December 1999, lot 148; MicroPUL, reel 1.
Part of the collection of Sidney L. Krauss, the postcard was inherited by his daughter, Mrs. Robin Craven, and it was later offered for sale by Christie’s on 10 December 1999 as an item in the Sidney L. Krauss collection.