Hartford Jan 15/83
My Dear Nephew—
I have just finished my book at last, & was about to return the volumes you so kindly lent me. I’ll get ’m started this afternoon or tomorrow. I am a little short-handed, in the executive department, the coachman’s family being down with scarlet fever—so I find myself a trifle overloaded with jobs which I don’t know the hang of. Two of our children are pretty sick, too—& 2½ weeks ago my secretary went home with scarlet fever, & since then I have disposed of 120 letters, January bills, & so on. My life is a trifle too busy these days.
Sincerely Yours
S L Clemens
When an audience do not complain, it is a compliment; & when they do it is a sort of confession that compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.
Geo. W. C [remainder torn away] | 229 [remainder torn away] [written across left end of envelope:] No Stuart in the lot, but give me the full title & I’ll rob a library for you. [return address:] return to s. l. clemens, hartford, conn., if not delivered within 10 days. [postmark torn away]
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