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To Augustin Daly
15 August 1877 • New York, N.Y.
(MS, postal card, in pencil: DFo, UCCL 01471)
(SUPERSEDED)

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7 AM Wedn’sy.

I can only tender my regrets & compliments, & say I am this moment leaving for that bourne from whence no traveler returns when sober (Elmira, N.Y.) Excuse haste & a bad postal card.

Ys Truly

S. L. Clemens

us postal card. write the address on this side—the message on the other | [address nearly illegible; only the following words are faintly visible:] Fiske | 5th Ave Theatre | City [postmarked:] new-york e aug 15 9am

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MS, postal card, in pencil, Augustin Daly Letters and Papers, DFo.

glyph Previous publication:Daly 1917, 147.

glyph Provenance:The Daly papers were acquired by Henry Folger at various sales in the early twentieth century.