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

Cue: "I am afraid you get sick too often to greatly"

Source format: "MS, correspondence card"

Letter type: "correspondence card"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

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To Jane Lampton Clemens
15 September ?1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: NPV, UCCL 10939)
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My Dear Mother:

I am afraid you get sick too often to greatly enjoy your visit. But everybody is in the same luck, these days. Livy & I have had our turn lately,— all the neighbors likewise. However, our children keep excellent health.

Enclosed I send you $100. Love to all.

Affly
Sam.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, Jean Webster McKinney Papers, Special Collections, NPV.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.

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

References

  1. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
  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 Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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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