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

Cue: "How in the"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2025

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To Charles L. Webster
15 December 1884 • Toledo, Ohio (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 03063)
Toledo, Dec. 15/84.
Dear Charley—

How in the nation can the thing tear, when it has got a couple of coverlets in its grip, & when the elastics give, & won’t let it tear?

You want to experiment more carefully.

Yrs
S L C

I expect to be at the Everett House Thurs Friday the 19th for a couple of hours. Call at 8 or 8.30 a. m.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

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

Previous Publication:

MTBus, 284 (with additional postscript paragraph likely written by Warner and previously mistaken for Clemens).

Provenance:

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

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