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Source: Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. catalog, Inventory no. 88777 ([])

Cue: "All right—shall expect you Friday"

Source format: "MS facsimile"

Letter type: "correspondence card"

Notes:

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Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To James R. Osgood
5 January 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile, correspondence card:
Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc., lot 88777,
UCCL 13129)
slcMy Dear Osgood—

All right—shall expect you Friday. ◊◊◊◊◊ Ⓐemendation

Would have written you sooner, but one of the children has been lying very close to the grave ever since New Years’ night, & was not declared out of danger till yesterday evening.

Truly Yrs
S. L. Clemens
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS facsimile, correspondence card, Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. catalog, lot 88777, http://www.betweenthecovers.com/btc/item88777, accessed 10 November 2008.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ ◊◊◊◊◊ ● approximately five or six characters canceled and illegible

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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