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Source: Distinguished Authors Whom I Have Known. Friendship, N.Y.: n.p ([])

Cue: "Sh! Don't say"

Source format: "Transcript"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

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To John W. Sanborn
24 January 1878 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript: Sanborn 1920, UCCL 10421)

’Sh! Dontemendation say a word—let the others get “stuck.” I’ll tell you privately, to use a wet rag or brush—but let us leave the others to get into trouble with their fingers. Then they will abuse the Scrap Book everywhere, &emendation straightway everybody will buy one to give to his enemy, &emendation that will make a great sale for the inventor, who will go to Europe &emendation have a good time.

Yours truly,
Mark Twain.
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Transcript, Sanborn 1920, 8.

Emendations and Textual Notes
  Dont •  sic; SLC sometimes styled contractions without apostrophes
  & •  and
  & •  and
  & •  and
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