Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, Conn ([CtHMTH])

Cue: "Will you please"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles E. Perkins
6 September 1882 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 02265)
Sept 6./82.
Mr Perkins,
Dr Sir—

I have

Will you please extract from my box (603) in the Safety Deposit Co, some certificates showing payments on Independent Watch Co stock amounting to 80 per cent canceled in pencil: (it’s 70 anyway—think it is 80) & mail the same immediately to Chas L. Webster, K. Eng. Co. 104 Fulton st. N.Y., FREDONIA, N.Y.Ⓐemendation See other page for authority.

Y[s] Truly
S L Clemens

upside down in bottom margin:

3

prove it—it would Ⓐemendation

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, CtHMTH.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

See Perkins Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ FREDONIA, N.Y. ● capitals simulated, not underscored
Ⓐ  3 | prove it—it would  ●  for this letter Clemens used a discarded sheet, numbered ‘3’, on which he had written and then canceled these words
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