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Source: Mark Twain Home Foundation, Hannibal, Mo ([MoHH])

Cue: "Bless me, but it makes a body seem mighty old! The"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2001-09-24T00:00:00

Revision History: RHH 2001-09-24 source was 550:91

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To James W. McDaniel
5 November 1879 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MoHH, UCCL 11805)


half-circled below picture: Salute of Congratulation.

Hartford, Nov. 5/79
My Dear Jim:

Bless me, but it makes a body seem mighty old! The 25th anniversary! Well, I wish you many happy returns of it. I go to Chicago next well week, & would certainly run over & compare gray heads with you if I had the time.

Truly Yr friend
S. L. Clemens

Mr. J. W. McDaniel | Hannibal | Missouri postmarked: hartford conn. nov 5 12m

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, MoHH. Stationery featuring this ship appears only once among Clemens’s known correspondence.

Previous Publication:

Hagood and Hagood 1992, 91.

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