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

Cue: "Yes, come up"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2025

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles L. Webster
6 April 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02948)
Dear Charley

Yes, come up & bring the pictures.


Send a cloth Prince & Pauper & a cloth Miss[iss]ippi to

“Brown & Gross,

Hartford”

& write & tell them the books are for Mrs. Olmsted’s Southern school or charity. Charge the books to me.

Ys Truly
S L C

letter docketed:charles l. webster, publisher, 658 broadway, new york apr 9 1884and by Frederick J. Hall: attended to | F J H

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, in pencil, 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 Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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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