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Source: Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Mich ([MiD])

Cue: "I am very"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

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Last modified: 2007-08-30T00:00:00

Revision History: Paradise, Kate | MBF 2007-08-30 was VIW

Published on MTPO: 2022

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To George S. Merrill
per Fanny C. Hesse
8 February 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, signed by SLC: ViW, UCCL 04140)
slc/mt farmington avenue, hartford.
Geo S. Merrill Esqr
Dear Sir

I am very sorry that a number of engagements will prevent me from being present at the annual re-union of the Mass. Press.Ⓐemendation Association. Please present my thanks to the gentlemen of the Committee, for their courteous invitation, and my sincere regrets that I am not able to accept it.1explanatory note

Very truly yours
Samℓ. L. Clemens
February 8th 1877
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Source text(s):

MS, signed by SLC, Robert Morton Hughes Collection, ViW.

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MicroPUL, reel 1.

Explanatory Notes
1 Major George S. Merrill (1837–1900) was the publisher of the Lawrence (Mass.) American, and president of the Massachusetts Press Association (Toomey 1892, 464).
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ Press. ● sic
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