Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh [formerly UkENL] ([StEdNL])

Cue: "I want to"

Source format: "MS, correspondence card"

Letter type: "correspondence card"

Notes:

Last modified: 2007-08-30T00:00:00

Revision History: Paradise, Kate | MBF 2007-08-30 was UkENL

Published on MTPO: 2022

Print Publication:

This edited text supersedes the previously published text
MTPDocEd
To John Brown
5 December 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: StEdNL, UCCL 02465)
Hartford, NⒶemendation Dec. 5/76
slcMy Dear Friend the Doctor:

I want to recommend that you let a very especial friend of ours (Mr. DeanⒶemendation Sage), give himself the honor, & the two of you the pleasure, of calling upon you. If you are well I know you’ll do it; & if your are out of town or not well enough to receive folks, I know Jock will make it known to the Sages.1explanatory note

Mrs. Clemens & I & “Megalopis” siezeⒶemendation 2explanatory note this opportunity to send you our Christmas greetings & a year’s accumulation of love.

As Ever Yours
S. L. Clemens
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, Accession 6289/23, StEdNL.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

Purchased in 1974.

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

Explanatory Notes
1 

Edinburgh evidently was included in the itinerary for Dean and Sarah Sage’s upcoming trip (26 Nov 1876 to Howellsclick to open link, n. 2). Jock was Brown’s son.

2 

Susy Clemens (22 June 1876 to Brown, n. 1).

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ N ● partly formed
Ⓐ Dean ● Dean Dean corrected miswriting
Ⓐ  sieze ●  sic
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