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To Charles Warren Stoddard
28? October 1877 • 3rd of 5 • Hartford, Conn.
(Inscription in The Innocents Abroad: Anderson Galleries catalog, sale of 10–11 November 1924, lot 182, and one other, UCCL 09765)

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To Chas Warren Stoddard

from his friend

Mark Twain

Hartford, Oct. 1877.

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Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

Inscription in an 1876 imprint of SLC 1869, Anderson Galleries catalog, sale of 10–11 November 1924, lot 182, is the source of the text; Heritage Book Shop catalog, sale of 26–28 June 1997, lot 128, is the source of the lineation. The catalog’s italics have been rendered here as roman type.

glyph Previous publication:

Christie’s catalog, sale of 17 May 1996, lot 58; Heritage Book Shop catalogs: sale of unknown date, no. 1012, lot 45; sale of 15–17 November 1996, item 111; sale of 12–14 February 1999, lot 187.

glyph Provenance:

Part of the William Harris Arnold collection offered for sale by the Anderson Auction Company in 1924.