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Source: Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y ([NPV])

Cue: "The nuts came"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Orion Clemens
11 November 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NPV, UCCL 02085)
My Dear Bro—

The nuts came, all right—much obliged. Also the old documents. Think pa did not write the 1802 one—he was only 3 years old, then.

Will send those photographs soon. They have been ordered yesterday.

Yr Bro
Sam
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

References

  1. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
  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 Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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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