To Franklin G. Whitmore
30 November 1880 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01860)

Nov. 230, 1880.

My Dear Whitmore:

How could you go & remember a body in this graceful & beautiful way? It goes far toward reconciling me to the fact that I stand to-day on the mid-summit of life & am for the first time looking down upon the country beyond, while the sun in the zenith has begun to [tilt] westward toward his setting.

Thanks, ever so many thanks—& from this day forth let both of us cease from scoffing at the old; for we be of that lot ourselves, now.

Truly Your friend

S. L. Clemens

Franklin G. Whitmore, Esq | 116 Main st. | City [postmarked:] hartford conn. [remainder of postmark torn away]

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Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, CU-MARK.

Previous publication:MicroML, reel 4.

Provenance:See Whitmore Collection in Description of Provenance.

Emendations and textual notes:

tilt • tilt tilt [rewritten for clarity]