1 Clemens probably sent this carte de visite at about the same time he enclosed one in the previous letter. Possibly he was replying belatedly to Bowen’s most recent known letter to him (CU-MARK):

Sallie was Sarah Robards Bowen. Catherine (Kitty) Hawkins was the older sister of Annie Laura Hawkins Frazer. Lucy Davis was a Hannibal schoolteacher (23 Apr 70 to Bliss, n. 6; 6? Feb 70 to Frazer; Inds, 95, 322). Bowen’s allusion was to As You Like It, act 2, scene 7, perhaps especially to these lines: “. . . The sixth age shifts / Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon, / With spectacles on nose and pouch on side.”