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

Cue: "A lot of"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2025

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Orion Clemens
3 November 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 03019)
My Dear Bro—

A lot of us have ing been examining Ma’s picture, tonight, & cannot decide what the work is—whether colored photograph, or pastille, or water-color, or what. ? We agree upon one point only: that it is admirable work, with the details most delicately & pains-takingly wrought out. What is it?

Yrs
 Sam 

on the verso, canceled with two crisscrossing lines:

Ich habe r Mühe gegeben, das zu thunemendation was Sie wollen.

Was Sie wollten das ich thunemendation solle, das habe ich ja gethan.

ich

Sie begehrte dass ich Etwas thun sollte; das selbe habe ich gethan, aber durch Mühe mich genirtemendation zu thunemendation.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

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

Previous Publication:

MTBus, 280–81.

Provenance:

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

Emendations and Textual Notes
 thun ● ‘un’ conflated
 thun ● ‘un’ conflated
 genirt ● sic
 thun ● ‘un’ conflated
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