Salem, Jan. 8.1
Livy darling, I got your dispatch announcing safe arrival of all the checks.2
Well, slowly this lecturing penance drags toward the end. Heaven knows I shall be glad when I get far away from these country communities of wooden-heads. Whenever I want to go w away from New England again, lecturing, please show these letters to me & bring me to my senses. How I do chafe & sweat when I count up the Dutch audiences I have yet to play the fool before.
I want to see you—writing is no good. Speed the day! I love you, darling.
Samℓ.
Mrs. Samℓ. L. Clemens | Cor. Forest & Hawthorne sts | Hartford | Conn. [postmarked:] salem o. jan 9
Explanatory Notes
Source text(s):
Previous publication:
L5, 14; LLMT, 362, brief paraphrase.
Provenance:see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.