To Orion Clemens and Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens
24 April 1876 • Hartford, Conn.
(Transcript by Albert Bigelow Paine: CU-MARK, UCCL 12740)
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Apl. 24

My Dear Bro & Sister

I enclose cks for next 3 months.1 All well here, especially self & the children, Livy is only about [customarily] well—that is to say, in rather indifferent [strength.] As I don’t enjoy letter writing there being such an awful lot of it to do, I will try to make up with [a photograph],2

With our love,

Yr Bro

Sam.

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1 By this date Orion and Mollie Clemens evidently had given up their Keokuk chicken ranch and were now living in the town itself, where Orion attempted to establish a law practice (see L6, 463 n. 8, 519–20). He had proposed this latest change of occupation in January (CU-MARK):

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If Clemens agreed to this proposal, he was sending Orion about forty-two dollars per month.

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2 For photographs that Clemens might have enclosed, see 29 Apr 76 to White and 5 May 76 to Conway.

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Transcript by Albert Bigelow Paine, CU-MARK.

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Emendations and textual notes:

customarily • customarly

strength. • strength,.

a photograph • aphotograph