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Source: Tulane University, New Orleans, La ([LNT])

Cue: "In behalf of"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

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From Samuel L. Clemens, Charles Dudley Warner,
and Others
per Charles Dudley Warner
to George Washington Cable
10 March 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: LNT, UCCL 02357)
Hartford Mch 10 1883
George W. Cable Esq
Dear Sir,

In behalf of the many admirers of your writings in this city, and in furtherance of a general desire to hear you in public, we take advantage of your presence in the North to ask you to deliver a lecture in Hartford on any evening that will be convenient to you.

Hoping that your engagements will permit you to comply with our earnest request,

We remain

Yours sincerely
(Signed) Samuel L. Clemens
Chas. Dudley Warner
Jos. R. Hawle
J. Hammond Trumbull
R. D. Hubbard
A. C. Dunham
E. P. Parker
Jas. G. Batterson
Wm. B. Franklin
Jos. H. Twichell
Henry C. Robinson
Wm. Hamersley
A. E. Burr
Edwin E. Johnson
N. Shipman
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, LNT.

Previous Publication:

Bikle 1928, 94–95.

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