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per Samuel C. Thompson
25 June 1873 • (1st of 2) • London, England
(Stenographic draft: CU-MARK, UCCL 00931)
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[ L June
em spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceLangah hotel1
em spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceem spaceJn 25th ]

Dear sir;2

I [thk ]you very much for your [kid offers, ]but I fear that [ ◇ ◇ ]I shall not have an [op. ]of visiting [Manchtr. ]I shall [prob ]have no time to [travel ]about any while I am here. I am dear sir yours [fathfly ],

[R. Cowly-Sq ]

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1 This and several other letters sent in late June and early July have been found only as Thompson took them down in his notebook from Clemens’s dictation. Their texts are a pastiche of shorthand symbols and scrawled, sometimes nearly illegible, longhand, often including abbreviated or misspelled words. The fair copies that Thompson sent presumably corrected all or most of these errors: two such fair copies are extant, and they corroborate this assumption (16 July 73 to Bliss and 16 July 73 to Warner; see also 29 Apr 73 to Mouland, n. 1). In the absence of fair copies, however, the notebook texts have been transcribed without emendation.

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2 Cowley-Squier has not been identified, although he was apparently connected with the London Examiner (see the next letter).



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Dictation recorded by Samuel C. Thompson in his stenographic notebook, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

glyphglyphPrevious publication:glyph L5, 388–389; N&J1, 545.

glyphglyphProvenance:glyphThompson’s notebook was purchased by CU-MARK in 1958 from Dawson’s Book Shop (Los Angeles).

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L June . . . Jn 25th • [longhand]

thk • [longhand]

kid offers • [longhand]

◇ ◇ • [two canceled shorthand symbols]

op. • [longhand]

Manchtr • [longhand]

prob • [longhand]

travel • [longhand]

fathfly • [longhand]

R. Cowly-Sq • [longhand]