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Source: Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, Conn ([CtHMTH])

Cue: "Would you mind telling me whose album it is that"

Source format: "MS, correspondence card"

Letter type: "correspondence card"

Notes:

Last modified: 2007-10-05T00:00:00

Revision History: Paradise, Kate | VF 2007-10-05 catalog was source

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Charles H. Phelps
8 April 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: CtHMTH, UCCL 12483)
Hartford Apr. 8.
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Chas. H. Phelps, Esq
       Dear Sir: Would you mind telling me whose album it is that “Pourquoi” quotes from in the April Californian? I dimly remember the screed that is signed with my nom de plume, but I can’t guess who the album-owner is. Charley Stoddard?

Truly Yours
S. L. Clemens

Chas. H. Phelps, Esq | Editor “Californian” | 511 California st | San Francisco | Cal. postmarked: hartford conn. apr 9 6pm and san francisco cal apr 18 a rec’d.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, CtHMTH.

Previous Publication:

Christophe Stickel Autographs catalog, unknown date ca. 2001, no. 2, item 49, facsimile; MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

Offered for sale by Christophe Stickel in 2001; donated to CtHMTH by Alexander (Sandy) Gaston in April 2002.

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

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