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Source: The James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California. The collection of the Copley Library was sold in a series of auctions at Sotheby’s, New York, in 2010 and 2011. | Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, 2301 Vine Street, Berkeley, CA 94708, ([CLjC])

Cue: "I hurried all I could, but it was a very very severe strain"

Source format: "MS | MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2018-07-26T10:44:01

Revision History: Larson, Brian | BL 2005-03-31 was ODaU | RHH 2018-07-26

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles Casey
11 March 1885 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, UCCL 03187)
Hartford March 11∕85.
Charles Casey, Esq,
Ex-President.
Dear Sir:

I hurried all I could, but it was a very very severe up strain upon that part of my bowels which is called my intellect, & I perceived long ago that I had not asked for time enough on that problem by as much as two years. Well, there is another & a longer world, & I will think it out there. It is not one of these mere ephemeral questions, anyway.

Truly Yours
Mark Twain
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

Offered for sale by Paul C. Richards, 22 Nov 1966; on 13 March 1967 MTP received a copy from Victor Jacobs, whose collection was eventually sold by Sotheby’s on 29 Oct 1996; the letter was purchased by Copley Library which was in turn sold by Sotheby’s, lot 496, on 17 June 2010; finally, purchased by the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, very likely from that sale of the Copley holdings.

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

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