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Source: Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks. Edited by Dixon Wecter. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library ([])

Cue: "I beg pardon"

Source format: "Transcript"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v2

MTPDocEd
To Mary Mason Fairbanks
12 May 1868 • San Francisco, Calif. ( MTMF , 27 n. 1, UCCL 02732)
San ⒶemendationF. May 12.
Dear ⒶemendationMother—

I Ⓐemendationbeg pardon for forgetting the picture when I wrote, the other day.1explanatory note I send it now.

Kind Ⓐemendationregards to all.
YoursⒶemendation

Textual Commentary
12 May 1868 • To Mary Mason Fairbanks • San Francisco, Calif. • UCCL 02732
Source text(s):

MTMF , 27 n. 1, copy #1 in CU-MARK.

Previous Publication:

L2 , 216; none known except the copy-text.

Provenance:

Wecter’s text in MTMF was based on a typed transcript (now lost) owned by Fairbanks’s grandson, Thomas Nast Fairbanks. Clemens’s MS has not been found.

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

Explanatory Notes
1 See 1 and 5 May 68 to Fairbanksclick to open link.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  San ●  “San
Ⓐ  Dear ●  “Dear
Ⓐ  I ●  “I
Ⓐ  Kind ●  “Kind
Ⓐ  Yours ●  “Yours”
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