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10? July 1870 • Elmira, N.Y.
(Fitch 1903, UCCL 10553)
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Now try [&] not put the audience to sleep, & don’t be the heedless cause of my first lie.1

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1 Clemens probably enclosed an excerpt from, or copy of, the preceding letter to Redpath. Fitch’s 1870 lecture was a success (3 Dec 70 to Redpath, n. 2).



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