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Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "Just a hasty"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v5

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To Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens
20 May 1872 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00751)
Elmira, Monday.
Dear Mollie—

Just a hasty note to say, get the girl cook m Mrs. Burton speaks of if you can.1explanatory note

Also, have the ca cot Ⓐemendation bed taken out of the little room (off the first floor bedroom) & put it in my study. Leave the book case in the study till we come.

We shall start home about Thursday or Friday noon.2explanatory note Will telegraph.

Affly
Sam.

Mrs. Orion Clemens | Cor Forest & Hawthorne | Hartford | Conn. Ⓐemendation return address: if not delivered within 10 days, to be returned to postmarked: elmira n y. Ⓐemendation may 21

Textual Commentary
20 May 1872 • To Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens • Elmira, N.Y. • UCCL 00751
Source text(s):

MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

Previous Publication:

L5 , 93–94.

Provenance:

see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.

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

Explanatory Notes
1 

See 15 May 72 to OC and MECclick to open link.

2 

The Clemenses’return to Hartford would be delayed until Wednesday, 29 May (see p. 97).

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  ca cot ●  caot
Ⓐ  Conn. ●  Conn◇ torn
Ⓐ  elmira n y.  ●  e◇ mira ◇◇. badly inked
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