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Source: Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, Conn ([CtHMTH])

Cue: "If I thought"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2022

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To Charles E. Perkins
5 October 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 01370)
Oct. 5.
Dr Sir:

If I thought the enclosed piece could live a week, I would attack it at once. Have read the MS—it is inconceivably wretched. It is made up of paragraphs taken bodily from my various books, & idiotically strung together upon the thin thread of a silly love tale.1explanatory note

Would you advise me to go to the expense of putting on an injunction now, or would you wait till the fate of the abortion is determined?

The assessor has sent me no tax list—I understood you to say he would send one to all tax-payers in October. How am I to get it?2explanatory note

Ck for $233 (Cincinnati,) rec’d.3explanatory note

Yrs Truly
S L Clemens
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, CtHMTH.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Explanatory Notes
1 

The offending pastiche has not been identified.

2 

Frederick P. Lepard, William Benton, and John M. Ney were the incumbent Hartford assessors (Geer 1876, 101, 251). See also 16 Oct 1876 to Perkinsclick to open link.

3 The writer of the Cincinnati check has not been identified.
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