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Add to My Citations To William P. Carpenter
23 September 1869 • Buffalo, N.Y.
(MS: NNC, UCCL 00357)
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Buffalo, Sept. 23.

Dear Sir—

I have forwarded your note to my Boston agent, Mr. Redpath, & he will fix a date & reply to you.1

With thanks—

Yrs Truly

Sam.ℓ L. Clemens.


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1 William Penn Carpenter represented the Utica (N.Y.) Mechanics’ Association, for which Clemens lectured on 14 January 1870. He was a bookkeeper for J. S. and M. Peckham, a Utica stove company (“Mark Twain,” Utica Observer, 14 Jan 70, 3; Utica Directory, front flyleaf, 46). This letter survives in the papers of his son, philologist and educator William Henry Carpenter.



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MS, William Henry Carpenter Papers, Columbia University, New York City (NNC).

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glyphglyphProvenance:glyph donated to NNC with the papers of William Penn Carpenter’s son, philologist and educator William Henry Carpenter (1853–1936).