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To Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens
8 August 1872 • (2nd of 2) • New Saybrook, Conn.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00789)

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Fenwick 8th

Dear Mollie—

Please send the Enclosed check to Kellogg & Co.1

All well. I am going to England in a week from now.2

Sam.

O. K. | Cor. Forest & Hawthorne | Hartford | [Conn. ] [postmarked:] new saybrook conn. aug 9 1872

Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary

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1 The “Enclosed check” does not survive. E. C. C. Kellogg and Company were Hartford gunsmiths who advertised themselves as “Locksmiths, Bellhangers, grinding and polishing, and General Jobbing. Ammunition and Fishing Tackle, &c.” (Geer 1872, 84). A receipt in the Mark Twain Papers, dated 6 August, for “Hanging Bell,” suggests that Kellogg and Company installed the prowler alarm recently requested by Clemens (20–23 July 72 to MEC, n. 1).

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2 Clemens’s actual departure date, 21 August, would be determined by Joseph Blamire’s advice (see the next letter, n. 1).

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

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

glyph Previous publication: L5, 142.

glyph Provenance:see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.

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Conn. • Conn. [ white diamond ] [torn]