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To Olivia L. Clemens
13 January 1874 • Liverpool, England
(Paraphrase: OLC to MEC, 11 and 14 Jan 74, NPV, UCCL 11914)

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A dispatch rec’d from “Sam” yesterday ‸(13th)‸ stated that he was “just starting”, that is five days earlier [than] he expected to sail—1

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1 This letter is known to survive only insofar as Olivia reported its contents to her sister-in-law Mollie Clemens in a letter of 11 and 14 January 1874. Clemens originally planned to sail for New York on 17 January aboard the Abyssinia. By 30 December he had changed to the Parthia, which departed Liverpool on 13 January and arrived in Boston on 26 January (L5, 523, 541–42).

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Source text(s):

Paraphrase in MS, Olivia L. Clemens to Mary E. (“Mollie”) Clemens, 11 and 14 Jan 74 (01039), Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries (NPV). MS facsimile is copy-text for the letter, since the editors have not seen the MS.

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glyph Provenance:see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.

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