To Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens
2 August 1872 • New Saybrook, Conn.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00784)

Fenwick, 2d. Aug.

Dear Mollie:

I wish Orion would go, some time within the next fortnight, & get the price of clean screened [L ]ehigh coal—& then go to Hatch & Tyler1 & if their price is similar, tell them to put ten tons of screened Lehigh into our cellar. And then I want y Downey to take particular note of how much of a pile it makes. I think it will fill the cellar; & I think that when I bought 36 tons of Hooker last fall, I bought more than the whole front yard would hold.

L Some day when you are down ◇ town, I wish you would buy me a dozen pairs of very fine, soft, white cotton socks—not those Lisle thread, but cotton. All my present socks appear to have darns on them. I infinitely prefer holes.

Livy keeps delighting herself over the little garment you made for [ h ] Susie, & so I judge she is as well pleased as possible with it.

Ys affy

Sam.

O. K. | Cor Forest & Hawthorne | Hartford | Conn [return address:] From. S. L. [Clemens ] [postmarked:] new saybrook conn. aug 3 1872

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1 Hatch and Tyler, wholesale and retail coal dealers in Hartford, provided “Lehigh, Lackawanna, Wilkesbarre and other coals ... for domestic use” (Geer 1872, 150; “Coal,” Hartford Courant, 23 July 72, 3).

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Source text(s):

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

Previous publication: L5, 136–137.

Provenance:see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.

Emendations and textual notes:

L • [partly formed]

h • [partly formed]

Clemens • Clem[] [torn]