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

Cue: "No copy of"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2025

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MTPDocEd
To Orion Clemens
17 November 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NPV, UCCL 03082)
Dear Bro:

No copy of the play has been printed:

Yr cheque rec’d.

Your poetry is all right, only the man whose attention could be diverted by the sun, while dimmed to a farthing candle by the insupportable splendor of the visible face of God, would certainly be a curious duck.

Livy is getting along only tolerably, but the children are in matchless health.

With love from us all to you both—

 Sam 
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

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

Previous Publication:

MTBus, 283.

Provenance:

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

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