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Source: United States National Archives and Records Service, National Archives Library, Washington, D.C. | University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley ([DNA CU-MARK])

Cue: "The Jonas Smith"

Source format: "MS, author's copy | MS, draft"

Letter type: "draft"

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To Rutherford B. Hayes
20 September 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, author’s copy, in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 01483)

(Copy of telegram to President of U. S.[)]

The starving crew of tThe Jonas Smith can be found in a very little while if your excellency will order the cutter Colfax to search again. The crew are good men, subjects of a friendly power (England) & are only starving, not committing crime. The Smith is a sailless, chartless, foodless unmanageable hulk, & has been drifting helpless for four months from Bermuda, begging her bread as she goes. IⒶemendation know the ship & her history. OurⒶemendation government has moved to the relief of distress like this before, hence I am emboldened to make this appeal. With great respect. Signed S. L. Clemens, Hartford.

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MS, author’s copy, in pencil, CU-MARK.

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MicroPUL, reel 1.

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