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:

L3 , 356; none known other than the copy-text.

Provenance:

The present location of the MS is not known.

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

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

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 [MT02039], 1869 [MT02217], 1869 [MT00766]).

Emendations and Textual Notes
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