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Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "I remember you"

Source format: "MS, correspondence cards"

Letter type: "correspondence card"

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Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Thomas H. Murray
13 May 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence cards: CU-MARK, UCCL 01803)

Private.

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Dear Sir: I remember you well, & most pleasantly, too. Do you remember the night journey in the stage coach? I ask because last year, in an out-of-the-way place in Germany, I came across a particularly seedy old fellow of about sixty, who said he was along, that night, (he was on the box,) & that the horses ran away & were making for a precipice when he seized the reins & saved our lives—then he struck me for ten dollars. I paid him, though I intimated that I thought he charged rather high. The truth is, I did not believe that old man. I did not believe there were any precipices on the road; I did not believe the horses ran away; I did not believe there were any passengers along but you & me. Do you remember that man? I told him that if he was with usemendation, we probably saved his life. Then I tried to collect——but this was a failure. Do you remember him? I can’t call him to mind.

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

MS, correspondence cards, CU-MARK.

Previous Publication:

MicroML, reel 4.

Provenance:

See Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

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