To Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens
24 or 25 July 1872 • New Saybrook, Conn.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00774)

Dear Mollie—

Please send all my individual washing to the steam laundry (or rather, notify them to come & get it,) till you find a [washerwoman ] who is more talented than this one. This one don’t even turn down a vest collar—or wash it, either, I may add.

The dirty clothes were expressed to you Monday. Will so telegraph you after breakfast——

Much obliged for the photos, cards & things.

Afly

Sam.

O. K. | ‸At‸ [ Cor Clemens’s ]—Cor Forest & Hawthorne sts | Hartford | Conn. [postmarked:] new [saybrook conn. jul 25 ] 1872

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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, 131–132.

Provenance:see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.

Emendations and textual notes:

washerwoman • washer-|woman

Cor Clemens’s • Corlemens’s

saybrook conn. jul 25 • [] rook conn. ju [l] 2[5] [badly inked]