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Source: Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif ([CSmH])

Cue: "I am going"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v6

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To Ainsworth R. Spofford
19 March 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CSmH, UCCL 01065)
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My Dear Mr. Spofford:

I am going to issue a pamphlet of Sketches,1explanatory note & I want to copyright both the contents of the pamphlet & the engraved design of the cover. Shall Ⓐemendation I simply send a dollar & then say on the Cover, “Cover & Contents entered in the office of the Librarian of Congress?”

Ys Truly
Samℓ. L. Clemens.

letter docketed: Rep. Entry | Mch 212explanatory note

Textual Commentary
19 March 1874 • To Ainsworth R. Spofford • Hartford, Conn. • UCCL 01065
Source text(s):

MS, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino (CSmH, call no. HM 40092).

Previous Publication:

L6 , 84–85.

Provenance:

see Huntington Library in Description of Provenance.

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

Explanatory Notes
1 

Mark Twain’s Sketches. Number One (25 Feb 74 to Fairbanks, n. 6click to open link).

2 

The reply from Spofford, librarian of Congress since 1864, does not survive, but he evidently informed Clemens that the cover and the contents would be covered by a single copyright. Clemens made formal application for it in his letter of 7 May 1874 to Spofford.click to open link

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  cover. Shall ●  cover.— | Shall
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