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Title
Pond, Col. J[ames] B[urton], APCS to. Jan. 2, [n.y.].
Names
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 (Author)
Pond, James B. (James Burton), 1838-1903 (Recipient)
Collection

Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers, 1856-1938 (bulk 1870-1938)

Correspondence

Outgoing Correspondence

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1870-01-02 - 1880-01-02
Place: Hartford, CT
Library locations
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Clemens
Shelf locator: m.b. ALS I - Q
Genres
Correspondence
Notes
Citation/reference: Union Catalog of Clemens Letters 06991.
Date: The card is addressed to Col. J. B. Pond, but he finished the Civil War as a major; may indicate forgetfulness on SLC's part or early acquaintance. It is "written in the gorgeous violet ink which Twain used at Hartford and in Europe from the mid-1870s to June 1880" (Franklin R. Rogers, Introduction to Simon Wheeler, Detective [NYPL, 1963], xix).
Ownership: Berg
Physical Description
Postcards
Extent: 1 leaf
[1 written side, 1 side for address]
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15893396
MSS Unit ID: 19174
Accession number: 52B3400
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7eb642b0-fb94-012f-2d8c-58d385a7bbd0
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1835: Creator Born
  • 1870: Created (Approximate)
  • 1910: Creator Died
  • 2015: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Pond, Col. J[ames] B[urton], APCS to. Jan. 2, [n.y.]. " The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1870 - 1880. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bcc609f0-e51c-0131-3d64-58d385a7b928

Chicago/Turabian Format

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Pond, Col. J[ames] B[urton], APCS to. Jan. 2, [n.y.]. " New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 25, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bcc609f0-e51c-0131-3d64-58d385a7b928

APA Format

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1870 - 1880). Pond, Col. J[ames] B[urton], APCS to. Jan. 2, [n.y.]. Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bcc609f0-e51c-0131-3d64-58d385a7b928

Wikipedia Citation

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Pond, Col. J[ames] B[urton], APCS to. Jan. 2, [n.y.].