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Auction archive: Lot number 74

TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L Clemens, 1835-1910) Three autograph le...

Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$6,442 - US$9,663
Price realised:
£9,375
ca. US$15,098
Auction archive: Lot number 74

TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L Clemens, 1835-1910) Three autograph le...

Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$6,442 - US$9,663
Price realised:
£9,375
ca. US$15,098
Beschreibung:

TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens, 1835-1910). Three autograph letters signed ('S.L. Clemens') to W.T. Roberts, Hamilton, Bermuda, 15 and 19 January 1910 and n.d., three pages, 8vo , one on hotel paper, two on Clemens's 'Stormfield, Redding, Connecticut' paper, two with original envelopes; and Twain's visiting card, annotated in autograph on verso.
TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens, 1835-1910). Three autograph letters signed ('S.L. Clemens') to W.T. Roberts, Hamilton, Bermuda, 15 and 19 January 1910 and n.d., three pages, 8vo , one on hotel paper, two on Clemens's 'Stormfield, Redding, Connecticut' paper, two with original envelopes; and Twain's visiting card, annotated in autograph on verso. Twain writes to the local bandmaster in Hamilton, Bermuda, only three months before his death: 'You were so kind as to say you would play a selection for me, & this note is to beg you to play the Intermezzo of Cavalleria [Rusticana] Sunday morning if I am not trespassing too much on your kindness'; subsequent letters accompany the gift of a photograph (not present) and acknowledge a photograph of the band, 'the men whose inspiring music has given me such great & frequent pleasure in the past two years'. The visiting card is annotated with names of tunes, 'Intermezzo, Gold & Silver, Rosary, Weymouth Chimes ...'.

Auction archive: Lot number 74
Auction:
Datum:
20 Nov 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
20 November 2013, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens, 1835-1910). Three autograph letters signed ('S.L. Clemens') to W.T. Roberts, Hamilton, Bermuda, 15 and 19 January 1910 and n.d., three pages, 8vo , one on hotel paper, two on Clemens's 'Stormfield, Redding, Connecticut' paper, two with original envelopes; and Twain's visiting card, annotated in autograph on verso.
TWAIN, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens, 1835-1910). Three autograph letters signed ('S.L. Clemens') to W.T. Roberts, Hamilton, Bermuda, 15 and 19 January 1910 and n.d., three pages, 8vo , one on hotel paper, two on Clemens's 'Stormfield, Redding, Connecticut' paper, two with original envelopes; and Twain's visiting card, annotated in autograph on verso. Twain writes to the local bandmaster in Hamilton, Bermuda, only three months before his death: 'You were so kind as to say you would play a selection for me, & this note is to beg you to play the Intermezzo of Cavalleria [Rusticana] Sunday morning if I am not trespassing too much on your kindness'; subsequent letters accompany the gift of a photograph (not present) and acknowledge a photograph of the band, 'the men whose inspiring music has given me such great & frequent pleasure in the past two years'. The visiting card is annotated with names of tunes, 'Intermezzo, Gold & Silver, Rosary, Weymouth Chimes ...'.

Auction archive: Lot number 74
Auction:
Datum:
20 Nov 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
20 November 2013, London, King Street
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