Apl. 10.
Dear Bro:
Am expecting Mollie presently.1
There seems to have been an item in the N. Y. Eve. Post the other day, saying that I had paid for a complimentary dinner to myself. Keep perfectly quiet about this but get me a copy of that paper—don’t cut out the item.2 There is going to be a libel suit, & I [ t ] want that fact to be kept secret.
Yr Bro
Sam


Orion Clemens Esq
40 W. 9th st.
New
York. [in upper left corner:] Private.
[rule]
[on flap:]
slc/mt
[postmarked:] n. y. & boston [r.p.o. ] apr 103
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary



Previous publication:
L6, 103–104.
Provenance:
see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.
Emendations and textual notes:
t • [partly formed]
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