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Source: Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y ([NPV])

Cue: "It was not"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2006-04-17T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 2006-04-17 on Beemer Apr 28; was "28 Apr after"

Published on MTPO: 2025

Print Publication:

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To Josephine Beemer
1? May 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, draft and instructions to Charles L. Webster, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 10870)
b
Denver
Colorado
4, 28, 84.
Mr Clemens:
Dear Sir:

I trust you will pardon the liberty I take in addressing you. I have been searching for a long time for a story written by you called “Wan Lee the Pagan.” I cannot find it in any copy of your works. If you will kindly suggest to me where I can find it I shall be very grateful to you—

Very Respectfully
Miss Josephine Beemer

written sideways in the margin and partially boxed:

b
Dear Charley—

Tell Say to her—

b
Dear Madam:

It was not I that wrote it, but Bret Harte.

Yours Truly
S. L. Clemens

per C. L. W. J

initials canceled and new ones inserted in another hand: Per J. H. F. J. Hall.

letter docketed: charles l. webster, publisher, 658 broadwayⒶemendation, new york. may 7 1884 and by Frederick J. Hall: F J H

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, draft and instructions to Charles L. Webster, in pencil, written on Josephine Beemer to SLC, 28 April 1884, UCLC 42027, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL , reel 2.

Provenance:

see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  broadway  ●  br◊◊◊way badly inked
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