To Orion Clemens
12 May 1880 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card: CU-MARK, UCCL 01802)

May 12.

My Dear Bro—Drop the book & give your entire mind to the newspaper. The bane of Americans is ovrerwork—& the ruin of any work is a divided interest. [Concencrate]—concentrate. One thing at a time.

Yrs in haste

Sam.

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MS, correspondence card, CU-MARK.

Previous publication: MicroML, reel 4.

Provenance:See Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.

Emendations and textual notes:

Concencrate • [sic]