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

Cue: "If you have"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2025

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To Charles L. Webster
19 August 1884 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 01474)
Dear Charley—

If you have a copy of the Sle Sellers play, I wish you would send it to me.

If you haven’t, ask Howells if he has.

And if he hasn’t, I hope you will run up to Hartford at your very earliest cha “idle moment” & look in the safe & in the billiard room. There must be a copy somewhere.

I’m going to elaborate it into a novel.

Gerhardt is completing a most excellent bust of me.

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

MS, in pencil, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.

Previous Publication:

MTBus, 273.

Provenance:

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

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