Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Reed College, Portland, Or ([OrPR])

Cue: "I hasten to"

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 Unidentified
25 September 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: OrPR, UCCL 01134)
slc/mt                        farmington avenue, hartford.
Sep. 25. 1874
Dear Sir Madam:

I hasten to comply with your request—& with great pleasure, too.

Ys Truly
Samℓ. L. Clemens
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Textual Commentary
25 September 1874 • To Unidentified • Hartford, Conn. • UCCL 01134
Source text(s):

MS, Special Collections, Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library, Reed College, Portland, Oregon (OrPR).

Previous Publication:

L6 , 246; Reed College Notes 8 (Apr 1946): 2.

Provenance:

The MS was owned by Portland banker Charles Francis Adams (1862–1943), who donated it to Reed College in 1940 or 1941 (Reed College Notes 7 [Apr 1945]: 1).

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

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ Samℓ . . . Mark Twain ● a vertical brace spans the right margin of the two-line signature
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