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To Charles Warren Stoddard
6? February 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y.
(MS: ViU, UCCL 08584)

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[enclosures of wedding cards] 1

[on the inside envelope:]

Chas Warren Stoddard

Tell me—what is the matter with Bret [ Hare Harte]?—why all these airs?2

Mark.

[on the flap:]

Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary

Editorial Signs

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1 The cards are not known to survive: see 6? Feb 70 to Barnes.

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2 Specific evidence of Harte’s “airs” has not been found. Clemens’s irritation with his old friend stemmed at least in part from the “most daintily contemptuous & insulting letter” Harte had sent him in September 1869, resenting his difficulty in getting a review copy of The Innocents Abroad (L3, 355–56; 26 Nov 70 to Webb).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, envelope only, Clem D. Johnston Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (ViU).

glyph Previous publication: L4, 61–62; Goodspeed’s Book Shop 1924, item 248d.

glyph Provenance:The envelope, not among the offerings in the sales of Stoddard’s library in 1909 and 1910, was sold in 1924 by Goodspeed’s.

glyph Emendations and textual notes:

Hare Harte • Harete