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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Letter from Albert Bigelow Paine, Norwalk, Connecticut, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1935 July 12 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
451068
Accession number
MA 4905.23
Creator
Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937, sender.
Display Date
Norwalk, Connecticut, 1935 July 12
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.6 x 13 cm
Notes
One of a collection of 32 letters from Albert Bigelow Paine to Edward Wagenknecht (MA 4905).
On stationery with the letterhead "Albert Bigelow Paine / Elmcrest / Norwalk, Connecticut".
Provenance
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of "two batches of your proof" [of Wagenknecht's Mark Twain book] and anticipating more; describing his poor health and how it prevented him from reading as closely as he would have liked; complimenting Wagenknecht's book; querying one statement from the book; stating that a number of quotations are uncredited and suggesting Wagenknecht include the necessary information in an Acknowledgment section; praising the humor of the book.