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

Cue: "Many thanks for the photograph & the pretty"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

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To David Watt Bowser
16 November 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: TxU-Hu, UCCL 02087)
slcDear Master Wattie—

Many thanks for the photograph & the pretty pictures. In return, I am going to send you a copy of my new book when it issues in December.

Truly Yours
S L Clemens

Master Wattie Bowser | Care Messrs. Bowser & Lemon | Dallas | Texasemendation return address: return to s. l. clemens, hartford, conn., if not delivered within 10 days. postmarked: hartford conn. nov 17 5pm

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, TxU-Hu.

Previous Publication:

Covici 1960, 112; MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

As of 1960, the letters to Bowser were “in the possession of Bowser’s niece, Mrs. E. C. Stradley” and destined “for eventual deposit in the manuscript archives” at TxU (Covici 1960, 105).

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

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