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Source: Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y ([NPV])

Cue: "The coffin of"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v4

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To Jane Lampton Clemens and Family
26 March 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: NPV, UCCL 00449)
Dear Folks—

The coffin of “Enterprise” files has come—$ expressage $9.50.1explanatory note Nothing unright about that, but I had had a sort of a general idea that it would come w emendation as slow freight along with Annie’s pianaemendation. However, it would not a have been as safe.

Livy got Annie’s letter yesterday, & both of us were pleased with it.—I, chiefly with the just remarks made about Livy’s comeliness & other attractions. I thought it showed a profound judgment & a mature appreciation, & thus was remarkable coming from one so young. {I will endeavor not to let Livy meddle with that sentence.}

I am going to edit a ten-page department in the “Galaxy” Magazine. The berth is exceedingly easy & the salary liberal. I am to own rent the matter to them, not sell it—& so I can use it in book form afterward without divi sharing the proceeds with them.

But I am in a hurryso I will say good-bye & love to all––

Sam
Textual Commentary
26 March 1870 • To Jane Lampton Clemens and FamilyBuffalo, N.Y.UCCL 00449
Source text(s):

MS, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Vassar College Library (NPV).

Previous Publication:

L4 , 97–98; MTBus , 112.

Provenance:

see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.

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

Explanatory Notes
1 

For an account of these “files” of western clippings, see RI 1993 , 801–4.

Emendations and Textual Notes
  w  ●  partly formed
  piana ●  sic
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