Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

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

Cue: "I will with"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2009-03-11T14:08:13

Revision History: AB 2009-03-11

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To John R. Drake
26 December 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CtY-BR, UCCL 02789)
Buf. Dec. 26.
J. R. Drake, Esq
     Dr Sir:

I will with pleasure forward to your brother theⒶemendation items he desires, at my earliest convenience.1explanatory note

Yrs Truly
Samℓ. L. Clemens.
Textual Commentary
26 December 1870 • To John R. Drake • Buffalo, N.Y. • UCCL 02789
Source text(s):

MS, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (CtY-BR).

Previous Publication:

L4 , 287.

Provenance:

laid in a copy of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (American Publishing Company, 1876), donated to CtY by Owen F. Aldis.

Explanatory Notes
1 

John Robert Drake (b. 1830), who worked for the Buffalo patent agency of Burke, Fraser, and Osgood, lived at 366 Delaware Avenue, two blocks from the Clemenses. Clemens’s next letter was to Drake’s brother (Buffalo Directory: 1870, 17, 342, 580; 1871, 322, 611; 1872, 266, 305; Samuel Gardner Drake).

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  the •  thee ‘e’ over miswritten ‘h’
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