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Source: Mark Twain: A Biography. By Albert Bigelow Paine. 3 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers. [Volume numbers in citations are to this edition; page numbers are the same in all editions.] ([])

Cue: "Send me $50 or $100"

Source format: "Transcript"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v1

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To Orion Clemens
10? April 1862 • Aurora, Calif./Nev. Terr. (MTB , 1:198, UCCL 11364)
. . . .

Send me $50 or $100, all you can spare; put away $150 subject to my call—we shall need it soon for the tunnel.1explanatory note

. . . .
Textual Commentary
10? April 1862 • To Orion Clemens • Aurora, Calif./Nev. Terr. • UCCL 11364
Source text(s):

MTB , 1:198.

Previous Publication:

L1 , 184–185; none known except the copy-text.

Provenance:

unknown.

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

Explanatory Notes
1 

Paine indicated that this sentence was from one of Mark Twain’s Aurora letters to Orion, which were “full of such admonition” (MTB , 1:198). The sentence is probably from a letter, now lost, that preceded the next two letters, which contain very similar “calls” upon Orion and mention tunnels on two Aurora claims: the Horatio and Derby, and the Red Bird. Since it is not known exactly when between 2 and 13 April Clemens arrived in Aurora, the assigned date remains conjectural.

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