To Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens
20 May 1872 • Elmira, N.Y.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00751)

Elmira, Monday.

Dear Mollie—

Just a hasty note to say, get the girl ‸cook‸ m Mrs. Burton speaks of if you can.1

Also, have the [ ca cot ] bed taken out of the little room (off the first floor bedroom) & put it in my study. Leave the book case in the study till we come.

We shall start home about Thursday or Friday noon.2 Will telegraph.

Affly

Sam.

Mrs. Orion Clemens | Cor Forest & Hawthorne | Hartford | [Conn. ] [return address:] if not delivered within 10 days, to be returned to [postmarked:] [elmira n y. ]may 21

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1 See 15 May 72 to OC and MEC.

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2 The Clemenses’return to Hartford would be delayed until Wednesday, 29 May (see p. 97).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

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

Previous publication: L5, 93–94.

Provenance:see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.

Emendations and textual notes:

ca cot • caot

Conn. • Conn[] [torn]

elmira n y. • [e] mira [.] [badly inked]