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Source: Collecting Autographs and Manuscripts. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press ([])

Cue: "The great question"

Source format: "MS facsimile, inscription, correspondence card"

Letter type: "correspondence card | inscription"

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1 December 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile, correspondence card:
Hamilton 1961, p. 118, UCCL 09279)

slcThe great question of the day does not disturb me; for I believe there can will be no eternal punishment, except for the man who invented steelⒶemendation pens.

Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens
Mark Twain.

Dec 1 77.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS facsimile, correspondence card, Hamilton 1961, 118.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  steel ●  stee steel corrected miswriting
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