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Source: Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, Conn ([CtHMTH])

Cue: "Please drop Harte"

Source format: "MS, correspondence card, in pencil"

Letter type: "correspondence card"

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To Charles E. Perkins
15 May 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 01432)
May 15.

Please drop Harte a line (45 Fifth avenue, New York) & say I have gone off on a sea voyage, leaving all my business in your hands; that his telegram has been forwarded to you; that in reply you have to say that I left instructions with you to credit his indebtedness to me with any moneys received during my absence from the play of “Ah Sin.”1explanatory note

Please keep a memorandum of deposits, so that I can have it when I return & know what source each item came from.

Ys Truly
S L Clemens
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, in pencil, CtHMTH.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open letter.

Explanatory Notes
1 Harte had telegraphed on 15 May in regard to his share of the proceeds from the Washington production of Ah Sin:“ Send my draft if any to mrs Knaufft forty five fifth ave” (CtHMTH). His older sister, Eliza Knaufft (1831–1912), and her husband, Frederick (1810–92), lived at this New York address. For the details of Harte’s indebtedness to Clemens, and also to the Knauffts, see 24 Jan 1877 to Bliss, n. 1, and AutoMT2, 634).
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