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To John R. Drake
26 December 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y.
(MS: CtY-BR, UCCL 02789)

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Buf. Dec. 26.

J. R. Drake, Esq
Dr Sir:

I will with pleasure forward to your brother [the] items he desires, at my earliest convenience.1

Yrs Truly

Samℓ. L. Clemens.

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1 John Robert Drake (b. 1830), who worked for the Buffalo patent agency of Burke, Fraser, and Osgood, lived at 366 Delaware Avenue, two blocks from the Clemenses. Clemens’s next letter was to Drake’s brother (Buffalo Directory: 1870, 17, 342, 580; 1871, 322, 611; 1872, 266, 305; Samuel Gardner Drake).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (CtY-BR).

glyph Previous publication: L4, 287.

glyph Provenance:laid in a copy of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (American Publishing Company, 1876), donated to CtY by Owen F. Aldis.

glyph Emendations and textual notes:

the • thee [‘e’ over miswritten ‘h’]