ALS, 1907 June 30 : London, to Ms. Clara Clemens, Tuxedo Park, New York.

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ALS, 1907 June 30 : London, to Ms. Clara Clemens, Tuxedo Park, New York.

Clemens writes his daughter about the pageant in Oxford: "3500 men, women & children who acted in living pictures reproduced historical episodes ofancient times ... a lovely meadow with a little river winding around it ... The costumes were historically exact to the last detail ... I met Charles I, James I, Henry VIII, Friar Bacon & no end of others.

5 p. ; 15.5 x 9.9 cm.

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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