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Source: Collection of Angelo Cifaldi ([NjNH2])

Cue: "I beg leave to introduce to you Mr. George C"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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Revision History: VF 2005-02-28 was 702:125.70 facsimile

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To Andrew Chatto
28 April 1877 • Baltimore, Md. (MS: Cifaldi, UCCL 12932)
guy’s hotel, on the european plan,
monument square, samuel c. little, proprietor.
baltimore, Apl. 28 1877
My Dear Mr. Chatto:

I beg leave to introduce to you Mr. George C. Wilde of the firm of Messrs. Slote Woodman & Co of New York, Blank Book manufacturers & proprietors of a self-pasting scrapbook invented by me. Mr. Wilde wishes to have a business conversation with you.1explanatory note

With kindest regards to Mr. Windus & Mr. Conway,2explanatory note I am

Yrs faithfully
Samℓ. L. Clemens
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, collection of Angelo Cifaldi.

Previous Publication:

Buddenbrooks catalog, sale of unknown date, no. 125, item 70, MS facsimile.

Explanatory Notes
1 Wilde probably wished to confer with Chatto about Slote, Woodman and Company’s plans to establish a London branch. Although Wilde went to England in March 1878 to take charge there, the planned expansion ended when the New York firm failed in July (N&J2, 159 n. 5; “Stationery Notes,” Publisher’s Weekly, 30 Mar 1878, 355).
2 Moncure Conway and W. E. Windus, Chatto’s partner.
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