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Source: Granat (Jerry) and Darvick (Herman) catalog, | Collection of Benjamin Shapell, now the Shapell Manuscript Foundation ([CBev6])

Cue: "The passage is as follows"

Source format: "MS facsimile | MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: LO

Published on MTPO: 2009

Print Publication: v4

MTPDocEd
To Unidentified
November 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: Shapell, UCCL 12486)
Buffalo, Nov. 1870.

The passage is as follows:

〚From Soliloquy at Tomb of Adam.〛

“The grave of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, & friends, & all who cared for me, thus to discover the grave of a blood relation. True, a distant one, but still a relation. The unerring instinct of nature thrilled its recognition. The fountain of my filial affection was stirred to its profoundest depths, & I gave way to tumultuous emotion.”

It is on page 567—well toward the end of the book.

Yrs Truly
Samℓ. L. Clemens
                                         (Mark Twain.)
Textual Commentary
November 1870 • To Unidentified • Buffalo, N.Y. • UCCL 12847
Source text(s):

MS: Benjamin Shapell

Previous Publication:

Herman Darvick Autograph Auctions, 7 Feb 1991, no. 25, lot 90, MS facsimile and transcript; Heritage Auctions, 21 Feb 2006, no 26, lot 26609, MS facsimile and transcript. Newly published on MTPO, 2010; updated 2013.

Provenance:

This MS became part of the collection of Benjamin Shapell at the time of or sometime after the 2006 Heritage Auction sale.

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

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