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Source: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass ([MH-H])

Cue: "With respects of Saml L Clements"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "inscription"

Notes:

Last modified: 2016-02-26T10:41:05

Revision History: VF 2016-02-26

Published on MTPO: 2018

Print Publication:

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To Oliver Wendell Holmes per American Publishing Company employee
15? September 1869 • (MS card with copy of The Innocents Abroad: MH-H, UCCL 12512)

With respects of

Samℓ L Clements 1explanatory note

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS card sent with copy of SLC 1869, MH-H (call no. *AC85 H7375 Zz869c). The card was tipped into the book, presumably when it was rebound in half morocco, and the book is signed by Holmes on the inner flap (‘O W Holmes | Boston’) and on the flyleaf (‘O W Holmes’).

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

Explanatory Notes
1 Probably around the middle of September, the American Publishing Company sent at Clemens’s request a copy of The Innocents Abroad to Oliver Wendell Holmes, who responded on 26 September (see 30 Sept 1869click to open link to Holmes, n. 1)
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