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Source: Collection of Theodore H. Koundakjian ([CAlb2])

Cue: "Will you please"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Francis E. Bliss
15 April 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: JIm, UCCL 01936)

slcDear Frank—Will you please drop Hinckley a line & say the Postmaster General has responded favorably (as per associated press dispatches of this morning,)—therefore he can notify that fellow to retire from the pirate-book trade. Well, just enclose this to Hinckley, Frank—I have lost his address.

Yrs
S L C

letter docketed: (Mark Twain)

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, JIm.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of Theodore Koundakjian, who sold it to Iwaki Meisei University in 1988.

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

References

  1. Iwaki Meisei University, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan.
  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. Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
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