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Source: Rains Galleries catalog, ([])

Cue: "Autograph post card à signed "Clemens""

Source format: "Sales catalog"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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Revision History: HES

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v5

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To Henry Lee
8? October 1873 • (1st of 3) • London, England (Paraphrase: Rains Galleries, lot 109 UCCL 11921)

AUTOGRAPH POST CARD from Mark Twain, signed “Clemens” to Henry Lee, about tickets, and an invitation to dinner.1explanatory note

Textual Commentary
8? October 1873 • To Henry Lee • (1st of 3) • London, EnglandUCCL 11921
Source text(s):

Paraphrase, Rains Galleries, lot 109. The letter was written on a postcard, presumably identical to the one described in the commentary for 4 Oct 72 to Leeclick to open link.

Previous Publication:

L5 , 450.

Provenance:

When offered for sale in 1937 (Rains Galleries) the MS was laid in a first edition copy of Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography (Harper and Brothers, 1909).

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

Explanatory Notes
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This brief paraphrase has been dated 8? October on the assumption that Lee responded immediately to the previous letter, requesting tickets to the upcoming Sandwich Islands lecture and inviting Clemens to dinner on Friday, 10 October (see the next two letters).

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