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Source: Reed College, Portland, Or ([OrPR])

Cue: "I hasten to"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v6

MTPDocEd
To Unidentified
25 September 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: OrPR, UCCL 01134)
slc/mt                        farmington avenue, hartford.
Dear Sir Madam:

I hasten to comply with your request—& with great pleasure, too.

Ys Truly
Samℓ. L. Clemens
Mark TwainⒶemendation
Textual Commentary
25 September 1874 • To Unidentified • Hartford, Conn. • UCCL 01134
Source text(s):

MS, Special Collections, Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library, Reed College, Portland, Oregon (OrPR).

Previous Publication:

L6 , 246; Reed College Notes 8 (Apr 1946): 2.

Provenance:

The MS was owned by Portland banker Charles Francis Adams (1862–1943), who donated it to Reed College in 1940 or 1941 (Reed College Notes 7 [Apr 1945]: 1).

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ Samℓ . . . Mark Twain ● a vertical brace spans the right margin of the two-line signature

References

  1. Reed College, Portland, Or.
  2. Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters. Edited by Paul Machlis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [In some cases, UCCL catalog numbers cited in this volume supersede those assigned in 1986 and reflect corrections or additions to the catalog since publication. An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page at MTPO.] 1986
  3. SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
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