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

Cue: "Make me a"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles L. Webster
2 January 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: NPV, UCCL 02141)
slcDear Charley—

Make me a copper stamp. I am on track of a way by which you can harden it afterwards, & make it as hard as brass. I hear this from the head of the Bank Note Co.

Ys
S L C
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, 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 Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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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