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Source: University of Virginia, Charlottesville ([ViU])

Cue: "From my study"

Source format: "MS, correspondence card"

Letter type: "correspondence card"

Notes:

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To Paul Apfelstedt
2? August 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: ViU, UCCL 01460)
Hartford, U.S., Aug. ’771explanatory note

slcDear Sir: From my study, which has also a “schoene Aussicht” (if I am translating rightly), I greet you, & comply with your request with great pleasure.2explanatory note

Very Truly Yours
Samℓ. L. Clemens
Mark Twain

          

Paul Apfelstedt, Esq

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Alderman Library, ViU.

Previous Publication:

MicroPUL, reel 1.

Provenance:

Deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 17 December 1963.

Explanatory Notes
1 This letter has been conjecturally dated 2 August, the day Clemens wrote from Hartford to George M. Fenn; no evidence has been found that he was in Hartford at any other time in August 1877.
2 Clemens, writing from his study with a “schoene Aussicht” (beautiful view), replied to a request from Paul Alexander Apfelstedt (1849–1933), an autograph collector in Frankfurt, Germany (Budan 1900, 276).
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