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Source: Christie’s East catalogs ([])

Cue: "To that good mannered"

Source format: "Sales catalog"

Letter type: "inscription"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Clara L. Clemens
25 December 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS facsimile, inscription in The Prince and the Pauper: Christie’s catalog, 11 May 1987, lot 11, UCCL 11444)

This is one of six or eight

copies that were printed on

India paper—or Japanese

paper, if you prefer that name.

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 & agreeable

child, Clara Clemens,

This book is affectionately

offered by

Her Father the Author.

Hartford, Xmas, 1881.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS facsimile, inscription in SLC 1881, Christie’s catalog, 11 May 1987, lot 11.

Previous Publication:

Heritage Book Shop catalog, 1988, no. 170; MicroPUL, reel 2.

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