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Source: University of Virginia, Charlottesville ([ViU])

Cue: "I repent me"

Source format: "MS, inscription"

Letter type: "inscription"

Notes:

Last modified: 2003-12-03T00:00:00

Revision History: Paradise, Kate | kate 2003-12-03 was 1876

Published on MTPO: 2022

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This edited text supersedes the previously published text
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28 January? 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: ViU, UCCL 10772)

I repent me in sack cloth & ashes?1explanatory note

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

MS, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Alderman Library, ViU.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Explanatory Notes
1 

The placement of this letter is arbitrary. Although Clemens’s repentance echoes his 28 January letter to Higgins, there is no present evidence that it was directed to J. Lawrence Kearny, as the letter to her might suggest.

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