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Add to My Citations From Olivia L. and Samuel L. Clemens to Susan L. Crane
26 or 27 February 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y.
(MTB, 1:409, UCCL 00434)
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. . . .

Sue, we are two as happy people as you ever saw. Our days seem to be made up of only bright sunlight, with no shadow in them.

. . . .

Livy pines [& ] pines every day for you, & I pine & pine every day for you, & when we both of us are pining at once you would think it was a whole pine forest let loose.1

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1 These fragments cannot be precisely dated, but may belong to the letter Olivia promised her father on 26 February.



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MTB, 1:409.

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& • and [three times; also at 80.24]