To Unidentified
18 March 1885 • Hartford, Conn. (Boston Transcript, 12 June 1885, p. 1: UCCL 03191)
18 March 1885 • Hartford, Conn. (Boston Transcript, 12 June 1885, p. 1: UCCL 03191)
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We have had a fire in the billiard-room this morning. The Babcock Extinguisher saved the house from destruction—a service which it has rendered us four times since we lived in Hartford. Be sure &Ⓐemendation send me a box of ammunition for the extinguisher right away.
S. L.
ClemensⒶemendation
(Mark Twain.)
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Boston Transcript, 12 June 1885, p. 1.
see source text.
The source says the letter was “to a friend,” but the request that he be sent “a box of ammunition for the extinguisher” suggests that it may in fact be to the company or to a friend who owned a hardware store.
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