To
Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens and Jane Lampton
Clemens
30 August 1877 • Elmira, N.Y.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01476)
(SUPERSEDED)
Elmira, Aug. 30.
My Dear Mollie:
I write for Livy, who has her hands full getting ready to leave for Hartford on the 4th.
Livy thinks your health & strength are a bar to your attempting the new house.
She says your energy & capacity are amply sufficient to enable you to succeed, & succeed handsomely; but, considering the bar above mentioned, she would advise rather against the new enterprise than in favor of it.
She says, If you got such an establishment on your hands & then fell sick—what then?
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out. I believe you could take the new house & make run it ably & make money out of it if you have a fair degree of strength—but when I reflect that with $42 a month from me, & $50 from Orion earned in a but like Livy I doubt if you have these.
With love from us,
Samℓ.
P. S. I wrote 5 pages, Mollie, but tore up 3⅓.
S L C
Dear Ma—If you don’t quit tearing around with the other young people, you will make yourself sick, sure. However, we are glad you are having such a good time, & hope it will continue. Why don’t you want to go to George Hawes’s? Livy & I & the children send love.
Samℓ.
Mrs. O. Clemens | Care Orion Clemens, Esq | Keokuk | Iowa
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