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Source: Collection of Maxwell R. Keniston ([M2])

Cue: "Please do me"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

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To Chatto and Windus
8 September 1878 • Geneva, Switzerland (MS: Keniston, UCCL 03446)
Mesr. Chatto & Windus,
    74 Piccadilly.
Gentlemen:

Please do me the favor to pay the bearer, Rev. J. H. Twichell ten pounds & charge to the ac/ of

Yours Truly
S. L. Clemens.

P. S. P. S. I am compelled to trouble you because the hotel has no English money & the banks are not open here on Sunday.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, collection of Maxwell R. Keniston.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 3.

References

  1. 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
  2. Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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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