Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin ([TxU-Hu])

Cue: "Bless your heart, child, is thy servant a muggins,"

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 William Bowen
28 March 1873 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: TxU-Hu, UCCL 00891)
Mch. 28.
Dear Will—

Bless your heart, child, is thy servant a muggins, that he should travel 1200 miles by rail when there ain’t anybody to make him do it? Skasely.1explanatory note

My London address will be:

Care Geo. Routledge & Sons

Publishers

The Broadway

Ludgate Hill

London, E.C.

SLC divided the address and the note with a diagonal line

Many

thanks my

boy. Write me

there.  Ys Ever

Sam.

Textual Commentary
28 March 1873 • To William Bowen • Hartford, Conn. • UCCL 00891
Source text(s):

MS, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin (TxU-Hu).

Previous Publication:

L5 , 323; Hornberger, 22.

Provenance:

purchased by TxU in 1940 from Eva Laura Bowen (Mrs. Louis Knox), daughter of William Bowen.

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

Explanatory Notes
1 

Bowen had evidently pressed Clemens to lecture in St. Louis, despite his earlier refusal (20 Mar 73 to Bowenclick to open link).

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