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

Cue: "I have ordered"

Source format: "Transcript"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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To John C. Merritt
22 February 1877 • 2nd of 2 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript: CU-MARK, UCCL 01407)
Hartford, February 22, 18771explanatory note
Dear Sir:

I have ordered your check to be deposited in my bank & shall not abuse your confidence but will purchase that toddy with the money & devote it to the drinking of your health and the magnifying of my own comfort.

Yrs. truly
Saml. L. Clemens
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

Transcript, CU-MARK.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

Source text courtesy of T. F. Flanagan.

Explanatory Notes
1 The dateline is reported, not quoted, in the transcript: “I have an original letter . . . . dated Hartford, February 22, 1877 to John C. Merritt.”
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