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1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(Printed form letter with facsimile signature: NPV, UCCL 01399)
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i have the honor to reply to your letter just received, that it is my purpose to write a continuation of tom sawyer’s history, but i am not able at this time to determine when i shall begin the work.

you will excuse this printed form, in consideration of the fact that the inquiry which you have made recurs with sufficient frequency to warrant this method of replying.

Ys Truly

Mark Twain.1

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1No example of this form letter filled out and sent by Clemens has been found. He had begun to write his “continuation,” Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in July 1876 (1 Aug 1876 to Conway).



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Printed form letter with facsimile complimentary close, signature, and paraph, Jean Webster McKinney Papers, Special Collections, NPV.

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See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.