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Source: The James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California. The collection of the Copley Library was sold in a series of auctions at Sotheby’s, New York, in 2010 and 2011 ([CLjC])

Cue: "I wish you would write"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2000-06-01T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 2000-06-01 was IaWl2

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v6

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To William Wright (Dan De Quille)
17 September 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CLjC, UCCL 11612)
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Hartford Sept 17.
Dear Dan:

I wish you would write Messrs. Fair, Mackey & O’Brien,1explanatory note & ask them if they won’t save all the begging letters that come to them & send them to me from time to time. You know how rich my collection of this sort of literature is becoming, from reading some of those that Barnum sends me every month.

Yrs Ever
Mark.

P. S. I destroy the names & addresses of such letters.

Wm. Wright, Esq | Union Hall Hotel | City return address: if not delivered within 10 days, to be returned to | “Mark Twain” Esq | City. postmarked: hartford conn. sep 17 6pm

Textual Commentary
17 September 1875 • To William Wright (Dan De Quille) • Hartford, Conn. • UCCL 11612
Source text(s):

MS, James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California (CLjC).

Previous Publication:

L6 , 535–536; Berkove 1988, 8.

Provenance:

see the commentary for 29 Mar and 4 Apr 75 to Wrightclick to open link.

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

Explanatory Notes
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William Shoney O’Brien (1826–78) was born in Ireland and went to California in 1849, where he mined for a time, opened a saloon in San Francisco, and later became a stockbroker. Like Fair and Mackay, he made a fortune from the Comstock lode (Hart 1987, 358–59; 29 Mar and 4 Apr 75 to Wright, nn. 5, 9click to open link).

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