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            <title>Letter from George Carey Eggleston to Samuel L. Clemens: an electronic text</title>
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            <p>Mark Twain: April Fool, 1884</p>
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            <p><bibl n="copy">The Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).</bibl></p>
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         <head type="metadata"><name type="person" corresp="#GCE">George Carey Eggleston</name> to <addressee><name type="person" key="#SLC">Samuel L. Clemens</name></addressee>
               <date when="1884-03-31">31 March 1884</date> &#8226; <name type="place">Brooklyn, N.Y.</name>
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               <letterhead><l rend="noindent">707 green ave.,</l>
               <l rend="text-indent:2"><name type="place">brooklyn, n.y.</name></l>
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               <dateline rend="right"><date when="1884-03-31">31 March 1884</date>
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               <salute rend="noindent">My dear M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Clemens:&#8212;</salute>
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               <p rend="text-indent:2">My autograph book now contains autograph letters from all
               the men of letters with whom I have any acquaintance except yourself. Will you kindly make
               the collection complete?</p>
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                  <salute rend="indentcompclose">Sincerely Yours<space extent="4"/>
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                  <signed rend="indentsig">George Carey Eggleston</signed>
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               <ab>To Mr Sam<hi rend="superscript">l</hi> L. Clemens Esq | Hartford | Connecticut.</ab>
               <ab><note type="ed" place="inline" xml:id="ed001">return address:</note> <hi rend="xs-smallcaps">797 greene ave. | brooklyn</hi></ab>
               <ab><note type="ed" place="inline" xml:id="ed002">postmarked:</note> <hi rend="xs-smallcaps">brooklyn n.y. mar 31 11 pm 1884</hi></ab>
               <ab><note type="ed" place="inline" xml:id="ed003">docketed by SLC, in pencil:</note> Eggleston</ab>
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