19 January 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 01301)
P. S. Your
P. S. Too many
stamps sent to me.
I comply with the autographic request with great pleasure, offering an adage which I some years ago tried to ring in on the late Franklin but without success.1explanatory note
Mrs. Clemens thanks you for the pleasant message, & offers her kindest remembrances, together with the wish that we may see you under our roof some day.2explanatory note
“‘Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well.’—B. F.” This was Clemens’s epigraph to “The Late Benjamin Franklin,” part of his “Memoranda” in the Galaxy magazine for July 1870, and in September 1875 published in Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old (SLC 1870; SLC 1875c). Stillson may have sent Clemens a copy of the sketches volume to autograph, along with too much return postage.
Formerly on the staff of the New York World, Stillson was now in the real estate business in Denver (23 Mar 1874 to Stillson, L6 , 86 n. 1).
MS, Cyril Clemens Collection, CtHMTH.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Donated to CtHMTH in 1984 by Cyril Clemens.