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Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "It was my"

Source format: "MS, correspondence card"

Letter type: "correspondence card"

Notes:

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Published on MTPO: 2022

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To Orion Clemens
5 May 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: CU-MARK, UCCL 01426)
May 5.

It was my private secretary’s carelessness—but I enclose them.1explanatory note

I have a very bad cold in the head, therefore cannot enter into particulars; the time is needed for swearing.

Yr Bro
Sam.

Orion Clemens, Esq | Keokuk | IowaⒶemendation postmarked: hartford conn. may 5 6pm

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, CU-MARK.

Previous Publication:

MicroML, reel 4.

Provenance:

See Moffett Collection in Description of Provenance.

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

Explanatory Notes
1 In a letter of 2 May Orion had prompted Clemens for his regular monthly support checks (for the text see Clemens’s 5 May letter to Howells). He thanked Clemens on 10 May (see the next letter [UCCL 01425click to open link] and 14 May 1877 to OC, n. 1).
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  Iowa ●  Iow[◊] torn away
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