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Source: Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco, Calif ([CSfCP])

Cue: "Your favor of"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

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To Francis D. Clark
20 August 1877 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: CSfCP, UCCL 10338)
Elmira, N.Y. Aug. 20.
Francis D. Clark, Esq

Dr Sir: Your favror of the 13th has just been forwarded to me from the St. James, New York, & in reply I regret to be obliged to say that others engagements have put it out of my power to accept the courteous invitation of the Society of Pioneers.1explanatory note

With many thanks for the compliment of the invitation,

I am
Ys Truly
Samℓ. L. Clemens

letter docketed: Mark Twain

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MS, CSfCP.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Explanatory Notes
1 The invitation from Clark, like the one he had issued in 1876, has not been found. He hoped that Clemens would attend the banquet to be held on 8 September in Long Branch, New Jersey, by the Associated Pioneers, in celebration of the twenty-seventh anniversary of California’s statehood (5 Jan 1876 to Clark; “The California Pioneers,” New York Times, 9 Sept 1877, 2).
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