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Source: Stowe-Day Memorial Library and Historical Foundation, Hartford, Conn ([CtHSD])

Cue: "I do it"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v4

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To Hattie Booth
18 March 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CtHSD, UCCL 00445)
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Buffalo, Mch. 18.
Miss Hattie Booth—

I do it cheerfully, Mi for I am glad enough to k find that I can still “bring tears to eyes unused to weep.”1explanatory note I had thought it was one of my Lost Arts. I used to do that thing right handy, with boys under my size.

Yrs Truly
Mark Twain and Saml. L. Clemens.
Textual Commentary
18 March 1870 • To Hattie Booth • Buffalo, N.Y. • UCCL 00445
Source text(s):

MS, Katherine Seymour Day Collection, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford (CtHSD).

Previous Publication:

L4 , 93.

Explanatory Notes
1 

The request from Booth (who remains unidentified) was presumably for an autograph and probably included this phrase. No other source for it has been found. The monogram on this letter signified “Livy L. Clemens.”

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