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A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury · The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty one of The thirty thousand Dollar Bequest and
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  Speaker 1: Other Stories. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox dot org. The thirty thousand Dollar Bequest
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  Speaker 1: and Other Stories by Mark Twain, Section twenty one. A
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  Speaker 1: letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, Riverdale on the Hudson,
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  Speaker 1: October fifteenth, nineteen o two. The Honorable the Secretary of
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  Speaker 1: the Treasury, Washington, d C. Sir. Prices for the customary
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  Speaker 1: kinds of winter fuel, having reached an altitude which puts
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  Speaker 1: them out of reach of literary persons in straightened circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: I desire to place with you the following order. Forty
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  Speaker 1: five tons best old dry government bonds suitable for furnace,
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  Speaker 1: gold seven percents eighteen sixty four preferred, twelve tons of
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  Speaker 1: early greenbacks range size suitable for cooking, eight barrels seasoned
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  Speaker 1: twenty five and fifty cent postal currency vintage of eighteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty six eligible for kindlings. Please deliver with all convenient
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  Speaker 1: dispatch at my house in Riverdale at lowest rates for
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  Speaker 1: spot cash and send bill to your obliged servant, Mark Twain,
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  Speaker 1: who will be very grateful and will vote right. And
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  Speaker 1: of a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury