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Source: Collier's, The National Magazine, 1920.10.02 facs ([])

Cue: "I am but one in the 55,000,000; still, in the"

Source format: "MS facsimile"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2005-08-24T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 2005-08-24 source was 572:147; date was 1883.09.04

Published on MTPO: 2023

Print Publication:

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To Melville E. Stone
6–30 September 1883 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS facsimile: Collier’s Weekly, 2 October 1920, clipping in CU-MARK, UCCL 11918)

Telegram.

Melville E. Stone,

Editor Daily News

Chicago, Ill

I am but one in the 55,000,000;Ⓐemendation still, in the opinion of this one-fifty-five- millionth of the country’s population, it would be hard indeed to better President Arthur’s administration. But don’t decide till you hear from the rest.

Mark Twain

Hang the telegraph—it would be a year getting there—I send by mail.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS facsimile, Collier’s Weekly, 2 October 1920, clipping in CU-MARK.

Previous Publication:

Melville E. Stone, Fifty Years a Journalist (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), 147.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ 55,000,000; ● punctuation not visible in MS facsimile
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