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Source: Rutherford B. Hayes Library, Fremont, Ohio ([OFH])

Cue: "Total Abstinence is so excellent a thing that it"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "inscription"

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Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Lucy Webb Hayes
24 January 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: OFH, UCCL 09312)

the
autographic
illinois state testimonial
to
mrs. president hayes.

autograph:

Total Abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extreme. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from Total Abstinence itself.

Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens
(“Mark Twain”)

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county:

state: Hartford, Conn., Jan. 24, 1881.

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Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, OFH.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center was established by the Hayes family in 1916.

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

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