No letters written between 3 and 14 August have been found, although it is known that Clemens wrote to Densmore on 4 August (see 3 Nov 74 to the editor of the Hartford Evening Post, n. 6click to open link). During that period, Clemens and Olivia left Elmira—presumably not before 5 August—for a visit to Jane Clemens and the Moffetts in Fredonia, about one-hundred-eighty miles west, and then north to see the David Grays in Buffalo. By 8 August, when the Elmira Advertiser reported that “Mark Twain has gone to Fredonia to visit his mother” (“Personal,” 4), they had already continued on to Buffalo, for on that date the Buffalo Evening Post noted that “Samuel L. Clemens, Esq., (Mark Twain) and his wife are presently visiting friends in this city, being guests of David Gray, Esq.” (“Personal,” 3). After their stay with the Grays, the Clemenses started back home, stopping along the way in Canandaigua, New York, about halfway along their two-hundred-mile route back to Elmira. On 12 August, the Ontario County Times, a Canandaigua weekly, reported that “Mr. George L. Clemens (Mark Twain) and family, are expected to be in town this evening, as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gridley, on Gibson street.” H. Gridley, a Canandaigua coal merchant, was doubtless a friend and probably a business associate of the Langdon family’s (“Home and About,” advertisement, 3). The visit was a short one: by 14 August, the Clemenses were back in Elmira, reunited with their children and with the Langdons and Cranes. The trip, which was intended to be restful and recuperative for Olivia (still not completely recovered from the 8 June birth of Clara), instead left her seriously depleted.