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Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "The Committee of"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

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Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles L. Webster
18 March 1885 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in purple pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 03192)
Mch 18∕85
Dear Charley—

The Committee of the Public Library of Concord, Mass., have given us a rattling tip-top puff which will go into every paper in the country. They have expelled Huck from their library as “trash & suitable only for the slums.” That will sell 25,000 copies for us, sure.

Ys
S L C
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Source text(s):

MS, in purple pencil, CU-MARK.

Previous Publication:

MTL, 2:452–53; MicroML, reel 5.

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