Letter to "Friend Sutro", 1872 June 11.

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Letter to "Friend Sutro", 1872 June 11.

Samuel Clemens letter, Hartford, [Connecticut], June 11 [1872], to "Friend [Adolph] Sutro, describing the illness and death of his son [Langdon], and the state of his wife's health.

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