If you have a perfect copy of your peerless Chicago speech to spare, please let me have it. I have imperfect copies, but no others. I’m to read the speech to a young girl’s club here, Saturday—but that is not the main thing, I want a perfect copy for my private [scrap book].
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):| Tr1 | Transcript in an unidentified hand made for Albert Bigelow Paine, CU-MARK. |
| Tr2 | Transcript by Sherman D. Wakefield, CU-MARK. |
Previous publication:
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Provenance:For the handwritten transcript made for Albert Bigelow Paine, see Paine
Transcripts in Description of Provenance. The typed transcript was sent to
Bernard DeVoto on 15 October 1941 by Sherman D. Wakefield, the husband of
Ingersoll’s granddaughter, who still held the MS at that
time.
Emendations, adopted readings, and textual notes:
Hartford, Dec. 9. (MTP) • Copy | Hartford, Dec. 9. (Tr1); Hartford, Dec. 9, 1879. (Tr2)
Dear (Tr1) • dear (Tr2)
scrap book (Tr1) • scrap-book (Tr2)
Truly yours (Tr1) • [complimentary close not in] (Tr2)
S. L. Clemens (Tr2) • signed S. L. Clemens (Tr1)
