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Source: New York Times, ([])

Cue: "The clock refuses to strike"

Source format: "Transcript"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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To Unidentified
20 and 22 September 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (New York Times, 14 October 1877, UCCL 13105)
HartfordⒶemendation, Sept. 20.

Dear SirⒶemendation: The clock refuses to strike, but I am not particular about that. She runs faster than necessary, but I can regulate that. She doesn’t change the day of the week and the month until noon; but if she will stick to that, so that I can depend on her, she will not perplex me by giving her yesterdays an extra 12 hours. I always did think the yesterdays were too short any way. I inclose check.

Sept. 22.—Clock is all right now.1explanatory note

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

“Mark Twain’s Clock,” New York Times, 14 October 1877, 5.

Explanatory Notes
1 The Times introduced this letter as follows: “A few weeks ago, when Mark Twain was in this State, he purchased a calendar clock. Shortly after his arrival home he sent the following characteristic letter to the dealer” (“Mark Twain’s Clock,” 5). The dealer has not been identified.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  Hartford ●  Hartford
Ⓐ  Dear Sir ●  Dear Sir
Ⓐ  Clemens ●  Clemens
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