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MTPO offers the only scholarly edition of Mark Twain’s complete letters, critically edited, annotated, and arranged in chronological order. Continually added to and updated, the Letters edition, with its extensive editorial notes, forms a detailed running account of Mark Twain’s life.
Most of these texts have been digitized from the Mark Twain Project’s printed volumes. Although every effort has been made to ensure accurate conversion, errors do persist. MTPO searches out and corrects these errors, and welcomes input from users.
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