CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Autograph letter signed ("S.L. Clemens") to "Dear Mr. Ashcroft" (undoubtedly the young Englishman Ralph Ashcroft who two years later became a secretary to Clemens), Dublin, N.H., 20 July 1905. 2 pages, small 8vo, on two separate leaves of black-bordered mourning stationery; framed with a portrait, 13 x 19 1/2 in. (32.5 x 49 cm.) overall."Appeal the case, as Mr. Baldwin advises, if it goes against us. I suggest that you do write Mr. Broughton & ask him to keep fresh in his memory the substance of Wheeler & Hammond's remarks about your capacity as a liar, etc., that day at the luncheon at the Midday Club. It was most unfair treatment of an absent man before strangers; Broughton is a gentleman by birth, breeding & nature & cannot have sympathy with that kind of conduct. You are free to say I strongly advised you to write him, if you like..."