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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

MTPDocEd
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
Langham Hotel
    20 Dec 1873.

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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