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To Silas S. Packard
21 September 1869 • Buffalo, N.Y.
(Packard, 110, UCCL 00356)

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Buffalo, Sept. 21.

Friend Packard—

’Taint any use—it can’t be [done1

. . . .

Yrs ]as Ever

Clemens.

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1 Clemens was probably declining to write yet another article for Packard’s Monthly, to which he had already made three contributions between March and August 1869 (SLC 1869 [MT02039], 1869 [MT02217], 1869 [MT00766]).

Source text(s):

Packard, 110.

glyph Previous publication: L3, 356; none known other than the copy-text.

glyph Provenance:The present location of the MS is not known.

glyph Emendations and textual notes:

done | .... | Yrs • done, etc. | [line of stars] | Yrs