To James R. Osgood
7–14 March 1883 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, in pencil, on proof page 356 of Life on the Mississippi: NN, UCCL 08820)
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[written below the illustration of a corpse in a shroud, canceled with crisscrossing lines:]
Dear Osgood—Knock this picture out. The madam’s orders are peremptory. She says the chapter is plenty dreadful enough without it.
Yrs
Mark
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