To
Mary Mason Fairbanks
12 May 1868 • San Francisco, Calif. ( MTMF , 27 n. 1, UCCL 02732)
12 May 1868 • San Francisco, Calif. ( MTMF , 27 n. 1, UCCL 02732)
San ⒶemendationF. May 12.
Dear ⒶemendationMother—
I Ⓐemendationbeg pardon for forgetting the picture when I wrote, the other day.1explanatory note I send it now.
Kind Ⓐemendationregards to all.
YoursⒶemendation
Explanatory Notes
References
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks. Edited by Dixon Wecter. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library. 1949
- 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
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 2: 1867–1868. Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, Richard Bucci, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1990
MTMF , 27 n. 1, copy #1 in CU-MARK.
L2 , 216; none known except the copy-text.
Wecter’s text in MTMF was based on a typed transcript (now lost) owned by Fairbanks’s grandson, Thomas Nast Fairbanks. Clemens’s MS has not been found.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.