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Source: University of Virginia, Charlottesville ([ViU])

Cue: "Been looking for"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

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To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
20 July 1872 • New Saybrook, Conn. (MS: ViU, UCCL 00770)
Fenwick Hall
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Friend Bliss—

Been looking for Harte here. If he comes, will let you know.1explanatory note If he comes, he may run up to Hartford with me.

What does Lockwood say about the patent?2explanatory note

Ys
Clemens.

letter docketed: Saml. Clemens | July 20th 72

Textual Commentary
20 July 1872 • To Elisha Bliss, Jr. • New Saybrook, Conn. • UCCL 00770
Source text(s):

MS, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (ViU).

Previous Publication:

L5 , 124.

Provenance:

deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 17 December 1963.

Explanatory Notes
1 

See 28 July 72 to Bliss, n.2click to open letter.

2 

Henry C. Lockwood of Baltimore, inventor of an “elastic waist strap,” had secured an interest in the manufacture of Clemens’s adjustable garment strap as a result of his patent dispute with Clemens in the fall of 1871. Bliss was charged with pursuing the strap’s manufacture, which was never accomplished; nothing is known of his dealings with Lockwood ( L4 , 465–66 nn. 1, 5).

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