To
George Haven Putnam
26 March 1878 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: Sotheby’s, New York,
October 1996, UCCL 01550)
26 March 1878 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: Sotheby’s, New York,
October 1996, UCCL 01550)
Hartford, Mch. 26/78
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Yes, I shall be very glad to talk four or five minutes, or rise in my place & excuse myself, (according to the earliness or the lateness of the hour.) One gets more gratitude for an excuse, sometimes, than for a speech; & I prefer gratitude even to applause.
Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens
MS, correspondence card, collection of Victor and Irene Murr Jacobs, seen at Sotheby’s, New York, while awaiting sale in 1996.
Anderson Galleries catalog, 12–13 January 1911, no. 882, lot 657, partial publication; Sotheby’s catalog, 29 October 1996, no. 6904, lot 212, partial publication; MicroPUL, reel 1.
The MS was offered for sale by Anderson Galleries in 1911; owned by Carl T. Naumburg in 1946 (Naumburg to Bernard De Voto, 5 Sept 1946, CU-MARK); bought from Seven Gables Bookshop by the Jacobses in September 1971; and sold through Sotheby’s in October 1996.