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Source: Sotheby’s, New York, N.Y ([])

Cue: "with the best wishes"

Source format: "Sales catalog"

Letter type: "inscription"

Notes:

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Revision History: ldm 2009-04-01

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To Erroll and Gwendolyn Scoville-Drake
26 February 1885 • New York, New York (Sales catalog: inscription in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Sotheby’s, sale of 15 July 1998, no. LN8412, lot 440, UCCL 13146)

To Gwennie and Erroll—

with the best wishes and kindest regards of

The Author

New York, February 26, 1885Ⓐemendation

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

sales catalog, inscription in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Sotheby’s, sale of 15 July 1998, no. LN8412, lot 440.

Previous Publication:

see source text.

Provenance:

none known.

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

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ To . . . 1885 ● lineation and capitalization have been editorially supplied to match SLC’s other book inscriptions from this period.
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