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Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "There is an item going around like this: [¶] “Mark Twain received and paid the bill for a complimentary dinner to him in Hartford lately.”"

Source format: "Typed transcription"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

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Revision History: RHH

Published on MTPO: 2009

Print Publication: v6

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To James Redpath
10 April 1874 • (1st of 2) • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript by Albert Bigelow Paine: CU-MARK, UCCL 12797)
April 10, 1874.
Dear Red,

There is an item going around like this:

“Mark Twain received &Ⓐemendation paid the bill for a complimentary dinner to him in Hartford lately.”

Confidentially between you &Ⓐemendation me, I am bringing a libel suit on this &Ⓐemendation I want you to send me all the newspapers you can find containing it.

Yours ever,
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Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

Transcript by Albert Bigelow Paine, CU-MARK.

Previous Publication:

Newly published on MTPO, 2010.

Provenance:

See Paine Transcripts in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

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