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Source: Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y ([NPV])

Cue: "I did not answer this bit"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2006-03-21T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 2006-03-21 written at top of JRO to SLC, 4 Feb 84 (UCLC #50407); was 1884.02.04 circa

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To Charles L. Webster
6? February 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 12893)

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I did not answer this bit of stupidity. Th

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james r. osgood and co. publishers boston
Feb. 4. 1884
Dear Clemens:

I have received your telegram as follows

“Charley is equipped with full authority and also with the amplest possible instructions.”

I take this to be in answer to my letter of Feb 2d, and I shall accordingly write to Webster covering a copy of the telegram and advise him that we shall await his further communications.

It is proper to say that I did not gather from Mr Webster in our interview on Saturday that he was armed with the authority and instructions which you mention. If I had, I should not have troubled you with that letter.

Yours truly
J. R. Osgood

S. L. Clemens Esq.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, in pencil, written on James R. Osgood to SLC, 4 February 1884, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV, UCLC 50407.

Provenance:

See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open letter.

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