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Source: Chicago Book Auction catalog, ([])

Cue: ""

Source format: "Sales catalog"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

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Revision History: Paradise, Kate

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To the Papyrus Club
7 February 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (Sales catalog: Chicago Book Auction, 19–27 April 1934, no. 41, lot 95, UCCL 12249)

A. L. S. by Clemens, 2pp., 8vo, Feb. 7, 1880, written in purple ink, declining an invitation to dinner at the Papyrus Club.emendation

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

Chicago Book Auction catalog, 19–27 April 1934, no. 41, lot 95. The catalog noted that the letter was tipped into a copy of The Innocents Abroad, the first volume of SLC 1899–1903, and it offered the set for sale: “The Writings of Mark Twain. . . . Twenty-two volumes. Hartford, American Publishing Company, 1899–1903. 8vo, three-quarter autumn leaf levant morocco, marbled boards, gilt tops.”

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

Offered for sale in 1934 by Chicago Book Auction.

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

Emendations and Textual Notes
  Club.  ●  Club; tipped in Volume I.
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