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Source: Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Conn ([CtY-BR])

Cue: "Won't you please"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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Revision History: HES 2005-03-09 was CtY

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To James R. Osgood
19 July 1882 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: CtY-BR, UCCL 02238)
Dear Osgood—

Won’t you please send to Commodore Rollingpin & get a photograph of Capt. Isaiah Sellers’ Monument in Bellefontaine Cemetery, & let our artist make a emendation or a full page picture of it. I stole my nom de plume from him, & shall have considerable to say about him, for out there he was “illustrious.”

Ys Truly
S L Clemens

P. S. And now, of course, the very man I want a favor of, would be the man whose house in Magazine street, we drove by without stopping at—Capt. John A. Stevenson. He has the article—my first—which made of Capt. Sellers so angry. Said he would give it to me, but at the time I didn’t think I needed it. Butemendation I do. Won’t you ask Bixby to get it for you? Say you want to see it, & will return it if required. And send Stevenson a White Elephant.

Ys
S L C
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, Collection of American Literature, CtY-BR.

Previous Publication:

MTLP, 156–57.

Provenance:

Donated by Elbridge Pierce in July 1937.

Emendations and Textual Notes
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