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

Cue: "All right. Tell"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2023

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To Charles L. Webster
20 June 1883 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: NPV, UCCL 01562)
Dear Charley—

All right. Tell Mr. Whitford about Duncan’s proposed suit. Tell him also that if I can be allowed to testify on my own behalf, I will go on the stand & point out each & every word in the printed interview that was actually uttered by me, & will show that 20 words will cover the whole; & I will swear that all the rest was the interviewer’s own—invented it himself. Then if Duncan Whitford lets Duncan know this, possibly he will drop his prosecution of me & strengthen his Times suit but by summoning me as a witness against the Times—a chance I should not be sorry to have.

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

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

Previous Publication:

MTBus, 216.

Provenance:

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

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