
24 April 1883 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, typewritten, from dictation: NPV, UCCL 02376)
hartford, april 24th. 1883.
dear charlie:—
today or tomorrow i will inclose to you a letter from [ella] lampton. you will see in it a suggestion which she makes, and will let me know what the prospect is regarding it.
i agree with you, that these worthless contracts are a bad backing. it cannot be safe to attack any one of them, since they could off-set us so [formidably] by arraying the rest of the batch against us. we shall probably have to drop the whole matter and say nothing at [all.
osgood] will be here tomorrow, and i will hand him those things you sent.
[liva] is improving all the time, but is still confined to her bed.
yours truly,
s. l. clemens.
Textual Commentary



Previous publication:
MicroPUL, reel 2.
Provenance:
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.
Emendations and textual notes:
ella • [‘e’ handwritten over typed ‘a’]
formidably • [‘y’ handwritten over typed and badly inked ‘y’]
all. [¶] osgood • [no extra space between paragraphs, here and hereafter]
liva • [sic]