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

Cue: "Enclosed find my draft for $100 in your favor"

Source format: "Transcript"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2014-07-02T13:26:26

Revision History: HES 2005-11-07 was 1872.01.03; added "2nd" | vf 2012-11-07 added (3rd of 3) | vf 2014-07-02 changed to (2nd of 2)

Published on MTPO: 2009

Print Publication: v5

MTPDocEd
To James Redpath and George L. Fall
13 January 1872 • 2nd of 2 • Pittsburgh, Pa. (Transcript by Albert Bigelow Paine: CU-MARK, UCCL 12774)

$100.

Redpath & Fall.Ⓐemendation

Gentlemen:—

Enclosed find my draft for $100 in your favor. Please acknowledge.

Yours
S. L. Clemens.

There now. I have written you five letters all at once &Ⓐemendation put a New York draft in each. ($124.69Ⓐemendation, $100, $200, $180, &Ⓐemendation $100.) $704.69Ⓐemendation altogether, &Ⓐemendation I have dated these letters from everywhere so some of them will get through anyway.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

Transcript by Albert Bigelow Paine, CU-MARK.

Previous Publication:

Newly published on MTPO, 2010.

Provenance:

See Paine Transcripts in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  Pittsburgh, Jan. 13. ●  Pittsburg, Jan. 3, 1872. spelling of city and form of dateline adopted from other SLC letters of the time
Ⓐ  Fall. ●  Falls.
Ⓐ  & ●  and
Ⓐ  $124.69 ●  $124,69
Ⓐ  & ●  and
Ⓐ  $704.69 ●  $704,69
Ⓐ  & ●  and

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
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