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

Cue: "No, the actor"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2024

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles L. Webster
28 January 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 02897)
Dear Charley—

Now, No,Ⓐemendation the actor must play Tom Sawyer till tillⒶemendation it is down to where it ◊ pays him only an average of $300 or $400 a month over clear & above expenses., for a whole season.

It’s important.

Ys T[r]uly
S L Clemens

I’m finishing the last act, to-night.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

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

Previous Publication:

MTBus, 233.

Provenance:

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

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ Now, No, ● No, w,
Ⓐ till till ● till | till
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