To Unidentified
26 August 1882 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS facsimile and MS, correspondence cards: The Autograph 1 [November-December 1912]: 179, UCCL 02255; Benoliel, UCCL 11076; NjP, UCCL 09323)
26 August 1882 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS facsimile and MS, correspondence cards: The Autograph 1 [November-December 1912]: 179, UCCL 02255; Benoliel, UCCL 11076; NjP, UCCL 09323)
Elmira, N.Y. Aug 26/82
Dear Sir—
I could not manage to think of a sentiment—they won’t come on demand—so I have substituted pictures, I being a good deal of an artist, though self-made, in that direction. I could always draw a picture of a fair sort, but not always a sentiment.
Truly Yours
S L Clemens
first enclosure:
drawing of a cat CAT. Ⓐemendation
slc
Truly Yours
S. L. Clemens
(Mark Twain)
Aug. 26, 1882.
second enclosure:
drawing of a cow COW. Ⓐemendation
slc
Truly Yours
S. L. Clemens
(Mark Twain)
Aug. 26, 1882.
MS facsimile for the letter (UCCL 02255), The Autograph 1 (November–December 1912): 179; MS, correspondence card, Benoliel, for the first enclosure (UCCL 11076); MS, correspondence card, NjP, for the second enclosure (UCCL 09323).
MicroPUL, reel 2.
The MS for the first enclosure was in the collection of Lynn Benoliel in 1984.