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Source: Iwaki Meisei University, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan ([JIm])

Cue: "Excuse delay—which"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 1998-04-07T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 1998-04-07 was CAlb2

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v4

MTPDocEd
To Unidentified
4 July 1870 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: JIm, UCCL 02799)
on the back:

e. h. paige,

no. 446 main street,

buffalo, n. y.

Excuse delay—which sounds strangely, yours being dated June 15, & this being July 4—but st nevertheless “Excuse delay” is proper, inasmuch as your note has been to hand 6 or 7 days.

Yrs Truly
Clemens.
Textual Commentary
4 July 1870 • To Unidentified • Elmira, N.Y. • UCCL 02799
Source text(s):

MS, on a carte de visite photograph of Clemens, Iwaki Meisei University, Iwaki City, Japan (JIm).

Previous Publication:

L4 , 163.

Provenance:

The photograph was part of the collection of Theodore J. Koundakjian until 1987, when it was sold to JIm (Kodama, 94).

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

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