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Source: Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Conn ([CtHi])

Cue: "I'm safe in closing a book with this note, ain't"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To James Hammond Trumbull
1 February 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtHi, UCCL 01902)
Feb. 1.
Dear Dr Trumbull—

I’m safe in closing a book with this note, ain’t I? You make the date 1819. It ain’t a misprint?

Please return me the note.

(For my purposes) I am sorry “sturdy vagabonds” were not enslaved BEFORE Edward the Sixth’s time——but I gather from you that they weren’t.

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

MS, CtHi.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

Acquired by CtHi in about 1897 from the James Hammond Trumbull estate.

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

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