To Orion Clemens
12 May 1880 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card: CU-MARK, UCCL 01802)

May 12.

My Dear Bro—Drop the book & give your entire mind to the newspaper. The bane of Americans is ovrerwork—& the ruin of any work is a divided [MS page 2] interest. [Concencrate]—concentrate. One thing at a time.

Yrs in haste

Sam.