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Hartford, Apl. 4.
Dear Sir:
I am sorry, but I do not know the date of Webb’s birth, nor can I at this moment call to mind any friend of his who would be likely to know.1
Resp’ly Yrs
Samℓ. L. Clemens
Explanatory Notes
Charles Henry Webb, humorist and publisher of Clemens’s first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches (SLC 1867a), was born 24 January 1834. Clemens long harbored ill feeling toward Webb over his management of the
book (8 April 1875, L6, 443 n. 1).
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Provenance:
The present location of the MS is not known; the photocopy in CU-MARK was provided in 1982 by the Louis A. Warren Lincoln Library and Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana (InFwLW).
