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Source: Stowe-Day Memorial Library and Historical Foundation, Hartford, Conn ([CtHSD])

Cue: "Forget the Pilgrims, if you will"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2015-09-04T16:31:08

Revision History: RHH 2015-09-04 spell out middle name

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To Isabella Beecher Hooker
24 January 1868 • (MS inscription, autograph album: CtHSD, UCCL 13620)

Samℓ. L. Clemens

San Francisco, Cal.

Jan. 24, 1868.

Forget the Pilgrims, if you will, but I beg that as long as they shall deserve it you will remember kindly ‘The Others.’

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS inscription in Isabella Beecher Hooker’s autograph album, CtHSD.

Previous Publication:

White 2003, 113.

Provenance:

The autograph album is part of the Isabella Beecher Hooker Collection, donated to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center by founder Katharine Seymour Day, Isabella Beecher Hooker’s granddaughter.

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