Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Stowe-Day Memorial Library and Historical Foundation, Hartford, Conn ([CtHSD])

Cue: "Forget the Pilgrims, if you will"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2015-09-04T16:31:08

Revision History: RHH 2015-09-04 spell out middle name

Published on MTPO: 2018

Print Publication:

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To Isabella Beecher Hooker
24 January 1868 • (MS inscription, autograph album: CtHSD, UCCL 13620)

Samℓ. L. Clemens

San Francisco, Cal.

Jan. 24, 1868.

Forget the Pilgrims, if you will, but I beg that as long as they shall deserve it you will remember kindly ‘The Others.’

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS inscription in Isabella Beecher Hooker’s autograph album, CtHSD.

Previous Publication:

White 2003, 113.

Provenance:

The autograph album is part of the Isabella Beecher Hooker Collection, donated to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center by founder Katharine Seymour Day, Isabella Beecher Hooker’s granddaughter.

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

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