Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Packard's Short-hand Reporter & Amanuensis (New York), 1885.04.00 ([])

Cue: "Taint any use"

Source format: "Transcript"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 1998-04-01T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 1998-04-01 was 1869.09.21 circa

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v3

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To Silas S. Packard
21 September 1869 • Buffalo, N.Y. (Packard, 110, UCCL 00356)
Buffalo, Sept. 21.
Friend Packard—

’Taint any use—it can’t be done1explanatory note

. . . .
Yrs Ⓐemendationas Ever
Clemens.
Textual Commentary
21 September 1869 • To Silas S. Packard • Buffalo, N.Y. • UCCL 00356
Source text(s):

Packard, 110.

Previous Publication:

see source text; L3 , 356

Provenance:

The present location of the MS is not known.

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

Explanatory Notes
1 

Clemens was probably declining to write yet another article for Packard’s Monthly, to which he had already made three contributions between March and August 1869 (SLC 1869, SLC 1869, SLC 1869).

Emendations and Textual Notes

The source text, rendered in italics except for the number ‘21,’ is silently emended to roman type.

Ⓐ  done | .... | Yrs ●  done, etc. | line of stars | Yrs
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