To Olivia L. Clemens
16 January 1872 • Pittsburgh, Pa.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00718)

16th

[Livy ] darling, in the course of an hour I shall [ b ] take the train for Lock Haven. It goes at 3 in the morning.1 I must do some packing, bill-paying & so forth, & this note is merely to tell you that I love you, & that if ever I get through with this tour alive I never want to take another, even for a month. I love you, darling.

Samℓ.

Mrs Samℓ. L. Clemens | Cor Forest & [Hawthorne ] | Hartford | [Conn.] [return address:] if not delivered within 10 days, to be returned to [postmarked:] pittsburgh pa. jan 16

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1 His lecture of 15 January at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, having been canceled (see the next letter), Clemens had extended his stay in Pittsburgh another day. On the evening of 16 January he lectured in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, where he also received the following letter from Olivia (CU-MARK), written on 9 January in reply to his 4 January letter from Dayton:

UCCL00713

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Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

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

Previous publication: L5, 27; LLMT, 362, brief paraphrase.

Provenance:see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.

Emendations and textual notes:

Livy • [‘y’ miswritten]

b • [possibly ‘h’]

Hawthorne • Hawthorn[] [torn]

Conn. • Conn[] [torn]