To
John T. Lewis
24 August 1877 • (1st of 2) • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, inscription in Roughing It: NElmC, UCCL 13815)
24 August 1877 • (1st of 2) • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, inscription in Roughing It: NElmC, UCCL 13815)
Explanatory Notes
1 Clemens gave inscribed copies of Roughing It and Sketches, New and Old (see UCCL 09282click to open letter), and possibly other books as well, to Lewis on the night of 24 August, in
recognition of his valor the previous day (see the letters of 25 and 27 Aug 1877 to
Brown and to the Howellses). When Lewis wrote to Clemens in 1880 to thank him
for the gift of a copy of A Tramp Abroad, he also mentioned “the past unmerited
presants you have kindly gave me” (11 Apr 1880, CU-MARK).
MS, inscription in SLC 1872, NElmC.
MicroPUL, reel 1.