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Source: Merwin-Clayton Sales Company catalog, ([])

Cue: "I have reformed"

Source format: "Sales catalog"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 1998-03-18T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 1998-03-18 was no year, place unknown

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

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To the Press Club of Chicago
20 April 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (Sales catalog: Merwin-Clayton Sales Company,
November 1911, lot 133a, UCCL 09869)

133a. —— A. L. S. 8vo, April 20 (no year).

“. . . I have reformed & quitted the lecture field permanently. If I should ever enter it again I should be exceedingly glad to lecture for the Club [Chicago Press Club] & meet those boys again. . . . I send the Club my new book,” etc.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

Merwin-Clayton Sales Company catalog, November 1911, lot 133a.

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
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