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

Cue: "Lovingly your"

Source format: "Transcript and paraphrase"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2003-12-03T00:00:00

Revision History: Paradise, Kate | kate 2003-12-03 was ca. 1 Aug 1880

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
Samuel L. Clemens for Jean Clemens
to Jane Lampton Clemens
28 or 29 July 1880 • Elmira, N.Y. (Transcript and paraphrase: Pamela A. Moffett to Orion and
Mary E. [Mollie] Clemens, 10 August 1880, CU-MARK, UCCL 09127)

Ma rec’d a very pretty letter from the new baby signed: Lovingly your grand-daughter and

Name child
Jane Clemens.

It was written when she was two or three days old.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

Transcript and paraphrase, Pamela A. Moffett to Orion and Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens, 10 August 1880, CU-MARK, UCLC 30162.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

See Moffett Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

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 Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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