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May 3, P.M.
Dear Mr. Fairchild—
O, dear, we should like it of all things,—it commends itself to us both as just the
excursion to make—but unhappily there is a breakfast engagement in the way, for 12. 30 tomorrow in Paris. So
we can only thank you cordially for offering us this pleasant opportunity & dam the fates for robbing us of
it. 
That word is not profane, as you will observe by the spelling.
So, with our best wishes for the a full day’s pleasure to you & yours—
I am
Truly Yrs
S. L. Clemens
Mrs. Clemens objects to that word—but she has no poetic feeling.
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