Gt Barrington
Midnight.
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Livy Darling— the lecture went off very handsomely, to a crowded house1—& now I’m going to bed—for I love you very very very much & am sleepy & stupid. Love to mother & the cubbie—
Mrs. Samℓ. L. Clemens | Cor Forest & Hawthorne | Hartford | Conn. [uncanceled, preprinted three-cent stamp]
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
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In reviewing Clemens’s 27 October performance, the Great
Barrington Berkshire Courier of 1 November
“maintained that of the crowd of four hundred, ‘at
least three hundred and ninety . . . went away dissatisfied and
disappointed. . . . we can only account for his plagiaristic lecture by
the . . . same charge he lays upon Artemus
Ward—laziness’” (Fatout 1960, 156).
Source text(s):MS, collection of Robert T. Slotta.
Previous publication:
L4, 482–483; Chester L. Davis 1977, 1–2; Christie 1991, lot 200, excerpt.
Provenance:The MS, part of the Samossoud Collection in the late 1940s when it was
transcribed by Dixon Wecter, was acquired before 1952 by Chester L. Davis,
Sr., from Clara Clemens Samossoud (see Samossoud Collection in Description
of Provenance). After Davis’s death in 1987, the MS was owned by
Chester L. Davis, Jr. In 1991, it was bought by the present owner.
Emendations and textual notes:
T • [partly formed]
