To Clara L. Clemens
25 December 1881 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS facsimile, inscription in The Prince and the Pauper: Christie’s catalog, 11 May 1987, lot 11, UCCL 11444)
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This is one of six or eight
copies that were printed on
India paper—or Japanese
paper, if you prefer that name.
Dec. 1883.
to
those good-mannered and agreeable children,
susie and clara clemens,
this book
is affectionately inscribed
by their father.
To that good mannered & agreeable
child, Clara Clemens,
This book is affectionately
offered by
Her Father the Author.
Hartford, Xmas, 1881.
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