To Unidentified
6 January 1871 • Buffalo, N.Y.
(MS: IU-R, UCCL 11887)

Buffalo, Jan 6/71.

This is the latest—taken last July in Washington. Haven’t succeeded in [ ga getting] my wife to a photographic gallery yet, but shall some day, & then we’ll send you one.1

Your friend

Mark Twain.

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1 Clemens sat for this photograph by Mathew Brady on 8 July 1870. No photographs of Olivia are known to have been taken in 1870 or 1871 (L4, 167, 168 n. 3, 374, 375 n. 2, 398 n. 1, 496).

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Source text(s):

MS facsimile, on the front and back of a photograph of Clemens. The editors have not seen the MS, which is in the Franklin J. Meine Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Library, University of Illinois, Urbana (IU-R).

Previous publication: L5, 687–688.

Provenance:Purchased in 1969 from the widow of Franklin J. Meine (1896–1968), a Chicago editor and publisher.

Emendations and textual notes:

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