To
Henry Lee
4 October 1872 • London, England (MS: Axelrod, UCCL 00818)
4 October 1872 • London, England (MS: Axelrod, UCCL 00818)
Oct. 4—night.
One o’clock tomorrow—all right. Will do my level best not to forget it. The best way will be not to get up till one. If you don’t find me at breakfast, skip right up in the lift. Thanks.
Yrs
Clemens.
post card
the address only to be written on this side.
to
Henry Lee, Esq
43 Holland street
Blackfriars Road,
London, S.E.
postmarked: london • w 7 oc 5 72 and london • e. c ba oc 5 72
MS, collection of Todd M. Axelrod. The letter was written on a halfpenny postcard printed in violet ink and measuring 4¾ by 3 inches, of a type in use from November 1870 until January 1875 (Marshall, 43, 46). The royal coat of arms appearing under the words ‘post card’ (191.9) has not been reproduced here.
L5 , 191; Current Company, item 29; Todd M. Axelrod, 124.
The MS was sold in 1977 by the Current Company of Rhode Island. It was acquired—perhaps then, certainly before 1981—by Jim Williams, a collector. Axelrod owned it by June 1983.