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Source: Columbia University, New York ([NNC])

Cue: "I have forwarded"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v3

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To William P. Carpenter
23 September 1869 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: NNC, UCCL 00357)
Buffalo, Sept. 23.
Dear Sir—

I have forwarded your note to my Boston agent, Mr. Redpath, & he will fix a date & reply to you.1explanatory note

With thanks—

Yrs Truly
Sam.ℓ L. Clemens.

Textual Commentary
23 September 1869 • To William P. Carpenter • Buffalo, N.Y. • UCCL 00357
Source text(s):

MS, William Henry Carpenter Papers, Columbia University, New York City (NNC).

Previous Publication:

L3 , 356–357.

Provenance:

donated to NNC with the papers of William Penn Carpenter’s son, philologist and educator William Henry Carpenter (1853–1936).

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

Explanatory Notes
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William Penn Carpenter represented the Utica (N.Y.) Mechanics’ Association, for which Clemens lectured on 14 January 1870. He was a bookkeeper for J. S. and M. Peckham, a Utica stove company (“Mark Twain,” Utica Observer, 14 Jan 70, 3; Utica Directory, front flyleaf, 46). This letter survives in the papers of his son, philologist and educator William Henry Carpenter.

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