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5 December 1874 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS facsimile: CU-MARK, UCCL 09848)
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Hartford, Dec. 5.

Dear Sir:

The article never was published in America. The book containing it may possibly be had at Routledge’s, 416 [Broome ] st., New York—agents of the London house.1

Ys Truly

Samℓ. L. Clemens

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1 The article was “Cannibalism in the Cars,” first published in the November 1868 number of The Broadway: A London Magazine (SLC 1868). It was reprinted in three collections published in London by George Routledge and Sons: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches (SLC 1870, 171–84); Mark Twain’s Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County And other Sketches. With the Burlesque Autobiography and First Romance (SLC 1872 [MT01065], 171–84); and Mark Twain’s Sketches (SLC 1872 [MT01064], 323–35) (ET&S1, 671–72; L4, 65 n. 3).



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MS facsimile, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

glyphglyphPrevious publication:glyph L6, 305.

glyphglyphProvenance:glyphThe present location of the MS, offered for sale in 1904 as part of the collection of Augustus Toedteberg (Anderson Auction Company 1904, lot 132), is not known; the photocopy was provided by Thomas Tenney.

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Broome • Broome | Broome [rewritten for clarity]