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Baxter, Sylvester, ALS to. Nov. 26, 1889.

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5152579


Item data

Title

Baxter, Sylvester, ALS to. Nov. 26, 1889.

Collection

Samuel Langhorne Clemens collection of papers, 1856-1938 (bulk 1870-1938)
Correspondence
Outgoing Correspondence

Names

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 (Author)
Baxter, Sylvester, 1850-1927 (Recipient)
Lyon, Isabel, 1863-1958 (Writer of accompanying material)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1889-11-26
Place: Hartford, CT

Library Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Clemens
Shelf locator: Letters from Mark Twain to Sylvester Baxter

Genres

Correspondence

Notes

Content: Regarding A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Citation/Reference: Union Catalog of Clemens Letters 02701.
Ownership: W. T. H. Howe

Physical Description

Extent: 1 leaf
[1 written side]. One of 7 letters collected and tipped into bound volume, with portrait and printed title page. 14 leaves [16 sides]. With newspaper clipping of the manifesto of the republican government of Brazil. 1 leaf Accompanied by note by Isabel Lyon in form of a ALS to W. T. H. Howe, November 10, 1938. 2 leaves.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15893396
Archives ID: 19174
accession number: 105714B
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 307818b0-0c06-0130-52d9-58d385a7b928

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Baxter, Sylvester, ALS to. Nov. 26, 1889." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1889. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/307818b0-0c06-0130-52d9-58d385a7b928

APA format

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1889). Baxter, Sylvester, ALS to. Nov. 26, 1889. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/307818b0-0c06-0130-52d9-58d385a7b928

Chicago/Turabian Format

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Baxter, Sylvester, ALS to. Nov. 26, 1889." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 6, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/307818b0-0c06-0130-52d9-58d385a7b928

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