To Moses S. Beach
8 June 1880 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card: CU-MARK, UCCL 12644)

Hartford, June 8.

Friend Beach: Many thanks for the text, which is a good one; & ever so many thanks, also, to you & Miss Emma, for the pleasant invitation, but we are just [MS page 2] at this time starting for Elmira for a long summer vacation, & are barred from accepting. In fact we ‸are‸ so seldom in a condition to visit anybody that [‸we‸] have come ‸at last‸ to feel ourseldves doomed to go without meeting our friends any more till we all reach our various quarters in the great hereafter.

Truly Yrs

S L Clemens