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Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "You are under"

Source format: "MS, draft"

Letter type: "draft"

Notes:

Last modified: 1998-04-10T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 1998-04-10 2nd of 2 letters; was to R. Cowley by SLC

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To Henry Watterson To R. Cowley-Squier
per Samuel C. Thompson
25 June 1873 • (2nd of 2) • London, England (Stenographic draft: CU-MARK, UCCL 00933)
Langhan Ⓐemendation hotel London
                                        Jne 25th Ⓐemendation
Dear sir,
      Dear Watterson, Ⓐemendation
   Dear sir,

You are under a misaprehnsⒶemendation, I have Ⓐemendationnot called at the Examiner officeⒶemendation;1explanatory note but all of Ⓐemendationhave said in your note— should go very well. Very truly,

R. Cowley-Squier Ⓐemendation
Textual Commentary
25 June 1873 • To R. Cowley-Squier , per Samuel C. Thompson • (2nd of 2) • London, England • UCCL 00933
Source text(s):

Dictation recorded by Samuel C. Thompson in his stenographic notebook, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

Previous Publication:

L5 , 389; N&J1, 546.

Provenance:

Thompson’s notebook was purchased by CU-MARK in 1958 from Dawson’s Book Shop (Los Angeles).

see the commentary for 25 June 73 to Cowley-Squier (1st of 2).

Explanatory Notes
1 

The London Examiner was a radical weekly launched in 1808 by John and Leigh Hunt. Its “political section gave great support to reform and was a frequent critic of the Prince of Wales” (Griffiths, 236).

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  Langhan  •  longhand
Ⓐ  Jne 25th  •  longhand
Ⓐ  Watterson  •  longhand
Ⓐ  misaprehns •  longhand
Ⓐ  I have •  I have I have shorthand; corrected miswriting
Ⓐ  Examiner office •  longhand
Ⓐ  of •  shorthand; possibly ‘that’
Ⓐ  R. Cowley-Squier •  R. Cowley-S -Squier | longhand
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