BIB_ID
286742
Accession number
MA 679.3
Creator
Spear, S. Lewis B., b. 1834.
Display Date
1873 July 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.5 cm
Notes
Incorporated into the text of the autograph manuscript of Life on the Mississippi by Samuel Longhorne Clemens. MA 679 consists of chapters 48-60, plus Appendix and Appendix A; written on the rectos and some versos of 409 pages, paginated by Clemens 749-774, 1-115, 1-8, 20-69, 1-14, 139-163, 1-25, 1-146. The present letter is paginated 38-40 in the second series of pagination.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Mr. Clemens in 1909.
Summary
Concerning a letter written to a convict called Williams, asserting that it cannot be established as genuine, and that Charles Williams is "not a Christian man, but a dissolute, cunning prodigal." Written from the Chaplains Office in the State Prison in Charlestown, Boston.
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