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

Cue: "They are pirates"

Source format: "MS facsimile"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2025

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Unidentified
5 July 1884 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: Axelrod, UCCL 10475)
Elmira, July 5/84
Dear Sirs—

They are pirates—& unusually frank & bold, it seems to me. We are after them with a legal gun-boat.

Ys Truly
S. L. Clemens
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, in pencil, collection of Todd M. Axelrod.

Previous Publication:

Rains Galleries auction catalog, sale of 13 April 1937, no. 545, lot 168, partial transcription; MicroPUL, reel 2.

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