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Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "Two Views of"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "inscription"

Notes:

Last modified: 1998-04-08T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 1998-04-08 was 1870.11.18 circa

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v4

MTPDocEd
To Susan L. Crane
19–20? November 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 08621)

S.L.C.

c

Two Views of Langdon Clemens Thinking.

Two Views of Langdon Clemens asleep.Ⓐemendation

new page, in pencil:

c

10 11Ⓐemendation days old.

Measurements of the Baby, in inches.


Length 16.

Round hips 6½

Around Waist, 8½

 ″    Abdomen 9½ (over thick bandage.)

Around Bust 10.

Langdon Clemens

At 13 days

Around writs wristⒶemendation—2

 ″    Ancle 2¼

Length of foot 2½ 2¼Ⓐemendation

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

Previous Publication:

L4 , 243–244.

Provenance:

Either Mark Twain Papers or Samossoud Collection (see Description of Provenance).

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  Two . . . asleep. ●  printed, not cursive, characters
Ⓐ  10 11 ●  101
Ⓐ  writs wrist ●  writsst
Ⓐ  2½ 2¼ ●  2 1/24

References

  1. University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
  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. SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 4: 1870–1871. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1995
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