Hartford, Feb. 13.
Dear Mrs. Moulton:
I am very proud of my “Modoc” (the baby) & am glad to distribute her among appreciative people in photographs.1 And I would so like to do the same with her mother (whom I am still prouder of) but I can’t get that woman to sit—anywhere but at a dinner-table. But you shall have a picture whenever I get one.
I am coming to the St. James Hotel, Boston, late Monday afternoon, to a Wilkie Collins dinner; but as I return early next morning, I shall not have a chance to hunt you up, as I should otherwise do.2 However, I & the family are coming presently to remain a week, & then you’ll be so good as to come & see us, I promise myself.3
Ys Sincerely
Samℓ. L. Clemens.


Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton
28 Rutland Square
Boston. [on flap:]
slc
[postmarked:] hartford ct. feb 13 6pm
[docketed by Moulton:]
Samuel L. Clemens—Mark Twain.
Explanatory Notes
Susy Clemens, 1874. Huntington Library, San Marino, California (CSmH). See 13 Feb 74 to Moulton, n. 1.



Previous publication:
L6, 33–34.
Provenance:
After Moulton’s death in 1908, her daughter gave the
“bulk of her correspondence,” comprising autograph
letters from a great many distinguished persons, to DLC (Whiting 1910, 292–93).