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Source: The Rise of the American Film: A Critical History. With an Essay: Experimental Cinema in America, 1921–1947. New York: Teachers College Press ([])

Cue: "from his friend"

Source format: "Transcript, inscription"

Letter type: "inscription"

Notes:

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Revision History: VF 2004-02-11 was 1877.10.**; was 157:1924.11.10 | vf 2018-10-19 date to 22? October 1877 (was 20-22) | HES 2019-06-06 redated to 28? redated to 28? Oct 1877

Published on MTPO: 2022

Print Publication:

This edited text supersedes the previously published text
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To Charles Warren Stoddard
28? October 1877 • 3rd of 5 • Hartford, Conn. (Inscription in The Innocents Abroad: Anderson Galleries catalog, sale of 10–11 November 1924, lot 182, and one other, UCCL 09765)

To Chas Warren Stoddard

from his friend

Mark Twain
Hartford, Oct. 1877.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

Inscription in an 1876 imprint of SLC 1869, Anderson Galleries catalog, sale of 10–11 November 1924, lot 182, is the source of the text; Heritage Book Shop catalog, sale of 26–28 June 1997, lot 128, is the source of the lineation. The catalog’s italics have been rendered here as roman type.

Previous Publication:

Christie’s catalog, sale of 17 May 1996, lot 58; Heritage Book Shop catalogs: sale of unknown date, no. 1012, lot 45; sale of 15–17 November 1996, item 111; sale of 12–14 February 1999, lot 187.

Provenance:

Part of the William Harris Arnold collection offered for sale by the Anderson Auction Company in 1924.

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

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