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per Fanny C. Hesse
19 January 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 02801)
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Hartford Jany 19th 1877

My Dear Sister.

I have found the right school for Sammy. It is in Concord N. H. the best preparatory school for boys in this country. The Rev H. A. Coit is the Master, & Mr H. Evan Cotton who was himself prepared there for College, has given me [this] information concerning it. If you think favorably of it, you had better write soon to Mr Coit, St Paul’s School Concord N. H., as it is somewhat difficult to get an entrance there.1

We are all about as usual—the children have been remarkably well all winter. Livy would like to have you say to Annie that she found a difficulty in packing the music book so that it would go safely & now that Sammy will so soon be here,2 she will wait & send it by him. With love to all.

Your affectionate brother

Sam L. Clemens

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1Episcopal clergyman Henry August Coit (1830–95) became the first rector of St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, at its founding in 1856, a position he held until his death. Clemens's informant, Henry Evan Cotton (1850–1914), graduated from Trinity College in Hartford in 1874. In 1877 he was still living in Hartford while studying at Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Connecticut. Clemens's present effort to find a preparatory school for Samuel E. Moffett, now sixteen, follows the unsuccessful attempts, in 1874 and 1875, to have him appointed to the Naval Academy. Moffett did not attend St. Paul's School, but would study at the University of California and Columbia University (22 Dec 1875 to PAM, L6, 603 nn. 3–4; “Henry Evan Cotton [’77],” Berkeley Divinity School Bulletin 21 [Feb 1915]: 20; AutoMT3, 264–66, 583–84).

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2Moffett arrived in Hartford on 3 February to stay for “two or three weeks” (OLC to Olivia Lewis Langdon, 2 and 4 Feb 1877, CtHMTH).



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