Lot 122
  • 122

Twain, Mark [Clemens, Samuel L.]

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • Autograph letter signed, to Bram Stoker, [New York], December 27 1893
  • paper, ink
One page (7 x 4 1/2 in.; 174 x 113 mm). Black ink on letterhead paper (The Players, 16 Gramercy Park), signed "S.L. Clemens" with autograph envelope; fomerly folded with small splits at fold.

Literature

Not in Machlis

Catalogue Note

Mark Twain thanks Bram Stoker for a picture of Henry Irving

"My Dear Stoker: It is a wonderful picture. I have never seen one of Irving before that could at all compare with it. I don't know how to thank you enough".

The famous British actor Henry Irving was one of the inspirations for Count Dracula, the title character of the 1897 novel Dracula.