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Source: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin ([TxU-Hu])

Cue: "I should be"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To James Cowan
9 December 1879 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: TxU-Hu, UCCL 01735)
Hartford, Dec. 9.
James Cowan, Esq

Dr Sir: I should be glad to write something for the “Knapsack,” but my time is so wholly occupied on the closing chapters of a book that I am obliged to crave your indulgence.

Very Truly Yours
S. L. Clemens
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, TxU-Hu.

Previous Publication:

James F. Drake catalog, ca. 1954, item 17, transcript and paraphrase; MicroPUL, reel 1.

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