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Add to My Citations To Ainsworth R. Spofford
3 June 1882 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: DLC, UCCL 13099)
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Hartford, June 3/82.

A. R. Spofford, Esq

Dear Sir:

Will you be so kind as to order an examination & inform me if my copyright is perfect on the following books?

“The Jumping Frog & Other Sketches”—(copyrighted

  1. em space “The Innocents Abroad.”

[✔] 2. em space “Roughing It.”

[✔] 3. em space “The Gilded Age.”

[✔] 4. em space “Sketches, Old & New.”

[✔] 5. em space “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”

[✔] 6. em space “A Tramp Abroad.”

[✔] 7. em space “The Prince & the Pauper,”

and

[✔] 8. em space “Punch, Brothers, Punch”—(copyrighted by Slote, Woodman & Co., I believe.)

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I do not know what the charge is; so I m shall have to claim your indulgence & ask you to send bill to me.

Ys Truly

S. L. Clemens.

Textual Commentary



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MS, DLC, Ainsworth R. Spofford Papers.

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The Papers of Ainsworth Rand Spofford were donated to DLC between 1923 and 1982 by Barbara Spofford Morgan.

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