To
Robert G. Ingersoll
9 December 1879 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcripts: CU-MARK, UCCL 01737)
9 December 1879 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcripts: CU-MARK, UCCL 01737)
Hartford, Dec. 9.Ⓐemendation
My DearⒶemendation Ingersoll:
If you have a perfect copy of your peerless Chicago speech to spare, please let me have it. I have imperfect copies, but no others. I’m to read the speech to a young girl’sⒶemendation club here, Saturday—but that is not the main thing, I want a perfect copy for my private scrap bookⒶemendation.
Truly yoursⒶemendation
S. L. ClemensⒶemendation
Emendations and Textual Notes
All variants between the source texts are reported below. The adopted readings followed by ‘(MTP)’ is an editorial emendation of the source reading.
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Hartford, Dec. 9. (#MTP) ●
Copy | Hartford, Dec. 9. (#Tr1)
Hartford, Dec. 9, 1879. (#Tr2)
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Dear (#Tr1) ●
dear (#Tr2)
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girl’s (#Tr1) ●
girls (#Tr2)
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scrap book (#Tr1) ●
scrap-book (#Tr2)
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Truly yours (#Tr1) ●
complimentary
close not in
(#Tr2)
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S. L. Clemens (#Tr2) ●
signed S. L. Clemens (#Tr1)
No copy-text. The text is based on two transcripts, which derive independently from the MS:
MicroPUL, reel 1.
For the handwritten transcript made for Albert Bigelow Paine, see Paine Transcripts in Description of Provenanceclick to open link. The typed transcript was sent to Bernard DeVoto on 15 October 1941 by Sherman D. Wakefield, the husband of Ingersoll’s granddaughter, who still held the MS at that time.