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Source: “Twain on Lecky: Some Marginalia at Quarry Farm.” Mark Twain Society Bulletin 8 (January): 1–6 ([])

Cue: "I could feel the pathetic great deeps"

Source format: "Transcript and MS facsimile"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

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Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2012

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To James Whitcomb Riley
11 March 1885 • Hartford, Conn. (TS: Mary Boewe, “On Stage and Off with James Whitcomb Riley and Mark Twain,” Traces, vol. 7, Fall 1995, p. 18, UCCL 12004)

I could feel the pathetic great deeps which your verse has sounded in the “Old Swimmin’ Hole,” & know what a strong text it was & how well you have handled it.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

TS, Mary Boewe, “On Stage and Off with James Whitcomb Riley and Mark Twain,” Traces, vol. 7, Fall 1995, 18.

Previous Publication:

Boewe, Mary. "On Stage and Off with James Whitcomb Riley and Mark Twain." Traces 7 (Fall 1995): 16–25.

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