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Source: Book Club of California, 9 (1935), no page ([])

Cue: "Mark could rage"

Source format: "Paraphrase"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2005-07-28T00:00:00

Revision History: MBF 2005-07-28 was 1876.06.14 after

Published on MTPO: 2025

Print Publication:

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To Charles Erskine Scott Wood
5 November 1884? • Hartford, Conn. (Paraphrase: Wood 1935, no page, UCCL 11996)

Mark could rage with flatboat or mining-camp profanity over every injustice. When Blaine failed of the nomination for the Presidency, Mark wrote me an exultant letter full of explosive and obscene matter; a letter scornful of Ingersoll’s “He comes like a plumed knight;” bitter with rage against the corruption in Lincoln’s once great party. The letter is, I think, in the Adolph Sutro collection.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

Paraphrase, Wood 1935, no page.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 2.

Provenance:

In 1935 Wood thought the letter was in the Adolph Sutro Collection.

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

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