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Source: Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y ([NPV])

Cue: "It occurs to"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

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Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2023

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To Charles L. Webster
19 December 1883 • 2nd of 2 (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02834)
Dc 19.
Dr Charley—

It occurs to me that you could have got that information in 24 hours by paying the d Dr Sunday Mercury’s dramatic editor $10 to furnish it to you on a piece of paper. Do it, & let’s hurry along.

Yrs
S L C

But we had decided on this procedure, hadn’t we?

I went to Boston, but I had no “business” to talk, & didn’t talk any. It was a social occasion. I could not have talked about this ignorant & stupid piece of work & kept my temper.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, in pencil, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.

Previous Publication:

MTBus, 229–30.

Provenance:

see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

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