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Source: New York Public Library, Albert A. and Henry W. Berg Collection, New York ([NN-BGC])

Cue: "To that good-mannered"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "inscription"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Olivia S. (Susy) Clemens
25 December 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, inscription in The Prince and the Pauper: NN-BGC, UCCL 10644)

This copy is one of six copies

that were printed on India paper.

S L C

(No, there may have been eight.)

Dec. 1883.


to

those good-mannered and agreeable children,

susie and clara clemens,

this book

is affectionately inscribed

by their father.


To that good-mannered and

agreeable child

Susie Clemens

this book is affectionately

offered by

thHer Father the Author.

Hartford, Xmas 1881.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, inscription in SLC 1881, NN-BGC.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

Sometime before 1939 the specially bound China paper first edition with its MS inscription was purchased by businessman William T. H. Howe (1874–1939); in 1940 Dr. Albert A. Berg bought and donated the Howe Collection to NN.

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

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