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

Cue: "I have the"

Source format: "MS, form letter"

Letter type: "form letter"

Notes:

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Published on MTPO: 2022

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1877 • Hartford, Conn. (Printed form letter with facsimile signature: NPV, UCCL 01399)

hartford, 1877.


dear

i have the honor to reply to your letter just received, that it is my purpose to write a continuation of tom sawyer’s history, but i am not able at this time to determine when i shall begin the work.

you will excuse this printed form, in consideration of the fact that the inquiry which you have made recurs with sufficient frequency to warrant this method of replying.

Ys Truly
Mark Twain.1explanatory note
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

Printed form letter with facsimile complimentary close, signature, and paraph, 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 No example of this form letter filled out and sent by Clemens has been found. He had begun to write his “continuation,” Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in July 1876 (1 Aug 1876 to Conway).
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