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Source: Bonhams 1793 catalogs, no. 17520, lot 108 ([])

Cue: "I thank you very much for showing me"

Source format: "MS facsimile"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2009-11-06T12:34:31

Revision History: LO | skg 2009-11-06

Published on MTPO: 2009

Print Publication: v5

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To Arthur L. Pelham
per Charles Warren Stoddard
20 December 1873 • London, England (MS facsimile: Bonhams 1793 catalog, 19 October 2009,
no. 17520, lot 108, UCCL 12436)
slc                         farmington avenue, hartford. emendation

Dear Sir

I thank you very much for showing me these specimens of schooling in England and I have taken the liberty of copying a few of them in all their original orthography and punctuation.

I return the books to you by post.

Very Truly Yours
Saml. L. Clemens
To the
 Hon Arthur L. Pelham.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS facsimile, Bonhams 1793 catalog, 19 October 2009, no. 17520, lot 108.

Previous Publication:

Bonhams 1793 catalog, 19 October 2009, no. 17520, lot 108; Bloomsbury Book Auctions catalog, 13 December 1990, lot 187, partial publication. Newly published on MTPO, 2010.

Provenance:

As of November 2009, the manuscript is owned by Jeff Weber Rare Books.

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

Emendations and Textual Notes
  farmington avenue, hartford.  ●  canceled by Stoddard
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