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Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "The article never"

Source format: "MS facsimile"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v6

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To Unidentified
5 December 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile: CU-MARK, UCCL 09848)
Dear Sir:

The article never was published in America. The book containing it may possibly be had at Routledge’s, 416 Broome emendation st., New York—agents of the London house.1explanatory note

Ys Truly
Sam. L. Clemens
Textual Commentary
5 December 1874 • To UnidentifiedHartford, Conn.UCCL 09848
Source text(s):

MS facsimile, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

Previous Publication:

L6 , 305.

Provenance:

The present location of the MS, offered for sale in 1904 as part of the collection of Augustus Toedteberg (Anderson Auction Company 1904, lot 132), is not known; the photocopy was provided by Thomas Tenney.

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

Explanatory Notes
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The article was “Cannibalism in the Cars,” first published in the November 1868 number of The Broadway: A London Magazine (SLC 1868). It was reprinted in three collections published in London by George Routledge and Sons: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches (SLC 1870, 171–84); Mark Twain’s Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County And other Sketches. With the Burlesque Autobiography and First Romance (SLC 1872 [MT01065], 171–84); and Mark Twain’s Sketches (SLC 1872 [MT01064], 323–35) (ET&S1, 671–72; L4 , 65 n. 3).

Emendations and Textual Notes
  Broome ●  Broome | Broome rewritten for clarity
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