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Source: United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C ([DLC])

Cue: "The following is the only poem I find among the"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

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Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2007

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To Elizabeth S. Stevens
12 June 1879 • Paris, France (MS: DLC, UCCL 01667)
Paris, June 12.
My Dear

Miss Stephens—The following is the only poem I find among the canned sentiments in the storehouse of my memory which appears to feel as I do about it:

My pen is bad, my ink is pale,
               But my affection for you will

never fail.

Yours
S. L. Clemens
                                          Mark Twain

Miss Stevens | E./V.

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Source text(s):

MS, DLC.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

Gift of Elizabeth S. Stevens in July 1917.

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