To Olivia L. Clemens
12 January 1872 • Kittanning, Pa.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00715)

Kittanning, 12th

Livy darling, this is a filthy, stupid, hateful Dutch village, like all Pennsylvania—& I have got to lecture to these leatherheads tonight—but shall leave for [ Putt Pittsburgh ] at 3 in the morning, & spend Sunday in that black but delightful town.

Am up for dinners & things there.1 I love you, Livy darling.

Samℓ.

Mrs. Samℓ. L. Clemens | Cor Forest & Hawthorne | Hartford | [Conn. ] [return address] if not delivered within 10 days to be returned to [pittsburgh pa. jan] [postmarked:] pittsburg pa. jan 1

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1 No reviews of Clemens’s performance in Kittanning have been found. With no lecture scheduled on the weekend, Clemens planned to make the thirty-five-mile rail journey back to Pittsburgh early on Saturday morning, 13 January. His favorable impression of Pittsburgh dated from his successful lectures there in November 1868 and November 1869 (L2, 282–83, 298; L3, 382 n. 2).

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Source text(s):

MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

Previous publication: L5, 21–22; LLMT, 173.

Provenance:see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.

Emendations and textual notes:

Putt Pittsburgh • Pu ‸it‸tisburgh

Conn. • Conn[] [torn]

pittsburgh pa. jan1 • pitts [] pa. ja [] 1[] [badly inked]