Samuel L. Clemens for Olivia L. Clemens
to Annie Franklin
26 February–2 March 1878 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: IaDaPM, UCCL 01697)

Dear Mrs. Franklin:

Mrs. Clemens is very much afraid you will not be able to come to the Club at our house next Monday Evening, but she hopes you will come if you possibly can.

(Mrs. Clemens ◇ is so oversloughed with work of various sorts that I begged her to let me write these notes for her. What they lack in grace of expression I calculate to make up in the cordiality of my invitations & the superiority of my spelling, Mrs. Franklin.)

Truly Yours

S. L. Clemens