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To Charles Scribner and Company
25 June 1870 • Elmira, N.Y.
(MS facsimile: CU-MARK, UCCL 11850)

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Elmira, N. Y. June 25

saturday Dr Sirs:

Please send me Dr. Bushnell’s volume entitled “Christian Nurture,”1 to above address, & charge to

[Yrs] Truly

S. L. Clemens

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1 A book on child rearing and family life by Horace Bushnell (1802–76), the eminent Hartford Congregational clergyman. The Clemenses wanted it because Olivia was now about three months pregnant. It is likely that Clemens wrote to Scribner and Company, at 654 Broadway in New York, who had issued several printings of it since 1861 (Wilson 1870, 1092).

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Source text(s):

MS facsimile, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK). The editors have not seen the MS, which was owned in 1992 by Mrs. T. V. Hedgpeth, who sent a photocopy to CU-MARK.

glyph Previous publication: L4, 158–159.

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Yrs • [‘rs’ conflated]