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Source: The Reception Given to Thurlow Weed on His Eighty-third Birthday, November 15, 1880. Albany, N.Y.: For Private Distribution ([])

Cue: "I should like"

Source format: "Transcript"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To H. Clay Lukens
9 November 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (New York Press Club 1880, p. 23, UCCL 01852)
Hartford, NovemberⒶemendation 9, 1880.
My Dear Mr. LukensⒶemendation—

I should like it very much but I am booked otherwise for that day. I wish Mr. Weed and the rest of the boys a good time.

Truly yours,
Mark TwainⒶemendation.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

New York Press Club 1880, 23.

Previous Publication:

AAA/American Art Galleries catalog, 20 January 1914, lot 86; MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

Offered for sale in 1914 by AAA/American Art Galleries as part of the collection of the Tomlinson-Humes Company and Merle Johnson.

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  Hartford, November ●  Hartford, November
Ⓐ  My Dear Mr. Lukens ●  My Dear Mr. Lukens
Ⓐ  Mark Twain ●  Mark Twain
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