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Source: Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C ([DFo])

Cue: "Will you kindly oblige"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Chatto and Windus
per Unidentified Amanuensis

18 January 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: DFo, UCCL 11890)

Messrs. Chatto & Windus:

Piccadilly:

Gentlemen=

Will you oblige me by pasting the enclosed slip in the front page of an illustrated copy of my “Prince & Pauper”—(English edition) and sending it to this address—


—William Smith, Esq

Osborne House

Morley, near Leeds,

England.


—and charge to me?

I am

Your[s] very Truly,
S. L. Clemens

letter docketed: Sent off Jan 31. and in a different hand R. Bk f04435

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, William Henderson Collection, DFo.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

“Mr. and Mrs. Folger purchased the Henderson collection on March 19, 1900 from the American Art Galleries, lot 2652 entitled Play-Bills, Etc. A Library of Old Play-Bills, etc. (Collected by William Henderson), as part of the sale of Augustin Daly's letters and papers,” Folger Shakespeare Library 2010.

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

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