Buffalo, Dec. 1
Dear Sir:
I am sorry indeed that I did not see you, & glad, at the same time that you did not make the long trip out to my house & then fail, as—a thing apt to occur because folks are apt to come in the daytime & I don’t let anybody in, then! But I’m a sociable creature at night when work is done.
But work is piled on me in toppling pyramids, now—which figure represents a book which I am not getting out as fast as I ought—& I am obliged to say that I could not take half a column more on any terms. I would like exceedingly well to write for the Gazette (the only Weekly paper I ever wanted to own,) but as we steamboatmen used to say, “I’ve got my load.”1
Yrs Truly
Samℓ. L. Clemens.
Explanatory Notes



Previous publication:
L4, 254–255.
Provenance:
donated to MBAt on 5 March 1982 by Dorothy
Webling (Mrs. Benjamin T.) Stephenson, Brigham’s
granddaughter.