To Orion Clemens
5 May 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card: CU-MARK, UCCL 01426)

May 5.

slcMy Dear Bro—

It was my private secretary’s carelessness—but I enclose them.1

I have a very bad cold in the head, therefore cannot enter into particulars; the time is needed for swearing.

Yr Bro

Sam.

Orion Clemens, Esq | Keokuk | [Iowa] [postmarked:] hartford conn. may 5 6pm

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1In a letter of 2 May Orion had prompted Clemens for his regular monthly support checks (for the text see Clemens’s 5 May letter to Howells). He thanked Clemens on 10 May (see the next letter [UCCL 01425] and 14 May 1877 to OC, n. 1).

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Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, CU-MARK.

Previous publication:

MicroML, reel 4.

Provenance:

See Moffett Collection in Description of Provenance.

Emendations and textual notes:

Iowa • Iow[◊] [torn away]