To
Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens
8 December 1880 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card: CU-MARK, UCCL 01866)
Dec. 8.
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Dear Mollie—
Here is your pig. Fortunately the first attempt succeeded sufficiently well; I doubt if I could blind my eyes again & bring the ears on top of the head after traveling so far from the initial point. You might suggest to Orion—though it will do no good—that persons are almighty scarce who can write over 5 hours a day & 5 days a week & make literature which is worth anything but to kindle fires with. He will think he is an exception.
“Seddie” has an exceedingly fine genius—so have I. She has a bountiful lack of wisdom, sometimes—so have I. Therefore I am in a position to enyjoy her poems & excuse her indignations.
Ys Ever
Samℓ.
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MicroML, reel 4.
Provenance:See Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.
