The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing
2017, Volume 38
Mark Twain: April Fool, 1884
Edited by Leslie Myrick and Christopher Ohge
John E. Gowen to Samuel L. Clemens
31 March 1884 • New York, N.Y.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCLC 41874)
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the lotos club
147 fifth avenue
New York, March 31, 1884
My dear Clemens,
Will you be so good as to send me your autograph. I am sure you cannot refuse an old friend.
John E. Gowen
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Samuel L. Clemens Esq. | Mark Twain, | Hartford, | Conn.
[postmarked:] new york mar 31 3 pm f 84
[SLC, in pencil:] Gowen
Textual Commentary
▮ Copy-text: The Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
Persons Mentioned
John E. Gowen (1825–1895)
Col. John Gowen was an engineer and investor who defined his career by raising the Russian fleet of more than seventy ships after they were sunk at Sevastopol during the Crimean War. He was also an early member of the Lotos Club.
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