To Pamela A. Moffett
22 January 1873 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00861)

Home, 22d PM

Dear Sister:

Ma & Annie have just come—7 PM. They have been steadily on the road, 31 hours., & are rather tired, but will be all right in the morning.1

Ma says Sammy can’t run the engine because alcohol is [expensive. I] have given ma twenty dollars for Sammy to buy alcohol with—& so you can let him have the money as he needs it & ma will pay you. Let him get a mechanic to repair the engine where it leaks.2

Yrs Lovingly

Sam.

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1 If Jane Clemens and Annie Moffett spent “31 hours” on the road from Fredonia, they may have stopped overnight in New York. The trip would normally have taken about nineteen hours by train, with good connections (“Traveler’s Guide,” Fredonia Censor, 22 Jan 73, 4; Jervis Langdon, Jr., 3–4; Baedeker 1893, 198).

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2 See 26 Nov 72 to JLC and PAM.

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

Previous publication: L5, 279–280.

Provenance:either Mark Twain Papers or Moffett Collection (see Description of Provenance).

Emendations and textual notes:

expensive. I • expensive.— |I