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Source: Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Conn ([CtY-BR])

Cue: "Please send this"

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 Elisha Bliss, Jr.
22 November 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CtY-BR, UCCL 00542)
Buffalo, Nov. 22.
Friend Bliss:

Please send this beggar a cheap copy of the book & paste the enclosed into it.1explanatory note

Have instructed my brother to get to Hartford with all convenient dispatch. Frank’s “ounce” is not bad for a novice.

Yrs
Mark.

letter docketed: ✓ and Mark Twain | Nov 22/70 | Author

Textual Commentary
22 November 1870 • To Elisha Bliss, Jr. • Buffalo, N.Y. • UCCL 00542
Source text(s):

MS, Willard S. Morse Collection, Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (CtY-BR).

Previous Publication:

L4 , 247; laid in a copy of The Innocents Abroad (American Publishing Company, 1869) donated to CtY in 1942 by Walter F. Frear.

Explanatory Notes
1 

Presumably an autograph for insertion in The Innocents Abroad. The beggar has not been identified.

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