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Source: Parke-Bernet Galleries catalog, ([])

Cue: "any N.Y. book store"

Source format: "Sales catalog"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v5

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To Unidentified
25 April? 1873 • Hartford, Conn. (Parke-Bernet 1971, lot 207, UCCL 09691)

any N.Y. book store can furnish you a Mormon Bible1explanatory note


Textual Commentary
25 April? 1873To UnidentifiedHartford, Conn.UCCL 09691
Source text(s):

Parke-Bernet 1971, lot 207, which describes the letter as an “A.L.s., 1 page 8vo, Hartford, April 25, n.y., to an unnamed recipient.”

Previous Publication:

L5 , 354.

Explanatory Notes
1 

Clemens seems to have been answering a question prompted by his ridicule of the Mormon bible in chapter 16 of Roughing It. Since he was not in Hartford in April 1872, this letter fragment has been assigned to 1873, although it may have been written in 1874, or even later.

Emendations and Textual Notes
  Hartford, April 25. ●  Hartford, April 25,reported, not quoted
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