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Add to My CitationsTo Arthur L. Pelham
per Charles Warren Stoddard
20 December 1873 • London, England
(MS facsimile: Bonhams 1793 catalog, 19 October 2009,
no. 17520, lot 108, UCCL 12436)
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Dear Sir

I thank you very much for showing me these specimens of schooling in England and I have taken the liberty of copying a few of them in all their original orthography and punctuation.

I return the books to you by post.

Very Truly Yours

Saml. L. Clemens

To the
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Textual Commentary



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MS facsimile, Bonhams 1793 catalog, 19 October 2009, no. 17520, lot 108.

glyphglyphPrevious publication:glyphBonhams 1793 catalog, 19 October 2009, no. 17520, lot 108; Bloomsbury Book Auctions catalog, 13 December 1990, lot 187, partial publication. Newly published on MTPO, 2010.

glyphglyphProvenance:glyphAs of November 2009, the manuscript is owned by Jeff Weber Rare Books.

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farmington avenue, hartford. • [canceled by Stoddard]