To
Orion Clemens and Mary E. (Mollie) Clemens
24 April 1876 • Hartford, Conn.
(Typed transcription by or for Albert Bigelow Paine: CU-MARK, UCCL 12740)
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 customar[i]ly 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.
Explanatory Notes | Textual Commentary
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
(L6: 25 Apr 1875 to JLC and PAM n. 8; 26 July 1875 to OC, 519–20). He had proposed this latest change of occupation in January (CU-MARK): Clemens was still sending Orion $42 a month in the spring of 1877 (14 May 1877 to OC, n. 1).
For photographs that Clemens might have enclosed, see 22 Apr 1876 to White, n. 1.
Source text(s):Provenance:
See Paine Transcripts in Description of Provenance.
Emendations and textual notes:
strength. • ~,.
a photograph • aphotograph
