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Re: quotation but no citation
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Fred Shapiro <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:26:00 -0400
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> posting I focused on his implication above that the words I use in the
> "Paris" quotation are not precisely correct.  Looking at the electronic
> Twain letters edition I see that my text is slightly different from what
> is given there.  In my defense let me say that I got my text from a Mark
> Twain Papers-derived article in Bancroftiana, Nov. 1981!  But I am happy

Actually the discrepancies are matters of punctuation and capitalization
rather than wording.

Fred Shapiro

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