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Source: Georgetown University Library, Washington, D.C ([DGU])

Cue: "Don't forget to"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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To Elisha Bliss, Jr.
14 September 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: DGU, UCCL 02167)
Sept. 14.
Friend Bliss—

Don’t forget to put this in Tom Sawyer:


five lines enclosed in diamond: To My Wife This book is Affectionately Dedicated.1explanatory note


Yrs
Clemens

letter docketed: Saml Clemens | Sept 14 ″76

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, Brady Collection, DGU.

Previous Publication:

SLC 1982, no page, facsimile.

Provenance:

The letter was apparently kept with the holograph manuscript of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which passed from Elisha Bliss, Jr., to his son Walter. Walter Bliss died in 1917; before 1926, the manuscript was bought by Nicholas F. Brady. After Brady’s death in 1930, the manuscript became the property of his widow, Genevieve Garvan Brady, who donated it to DGU in April 1934 (SLC 1982, ix).

Explanatory Notes
1 This dedication appears verbatim in the American edition.
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