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Source: Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y ([NPV])

Cue: "Please instruct & assist these wayfaring ladies,"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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To Whom These Presents Shall Come
9 June 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NPV, UCCL 01340)

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Hartford June 9.
To Whom these presents shall come,
Greeting:

Please instruct & assist these wayfaring ladies, my mother & sister,1explanatory note

& Very greatly oblige

Ys Truly
Mark Twain
(S. L. Clemens.)
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, Jean Webster McKinney Papers, Special Collections, NPV.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Explanatory Notes
1 

Jane Lampton Clemens and Pamela A. Moffett were about to return to their home in Fredonia, New York, afer a visit to Hartford.

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