29 November 1869 • Boston, Mass. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00381)
Don’t know whether you’ve got a copy of this or not, Livy darling.

All well, sweetheartⒶemendation—I do love you, Livy—Livy I love you, honey.
Memo of Engagements Sam’l L. Clemens. from Dec 1. 1869.
| 1869. Dec. | 1.Ⓐemendation Brooklyn | N.Y. | Brooklyn Lib. Asso’n–90 South St. G. W. Frost. |
| 3. Poughkeepsie | “ | John Grubb. | |
| 6. Brooklyn | “ | Miss S. E. Wason N⁰ 70 Orange St. | |
| 7. Philadelphia. | Pa | T. B. Pugh. | |
| 8. Washington | D.C. | J. O. P. Burnside. 2d Ass’t P.M. Gen’l office. | |
| 9. Germantown. | Pa. | L. R. Hamersly. “Chronicle” | |
| 10. Mt. Vernon. | N.Y. | John Marsellus. No. 58 White St. N. York | |
| 11. West Meriden. | Conn: | Cha’s H. Shaw. | |
| 13. New. Britain | ” | J. Warren Tuck. | |
| 14. Warren. | Mass. | J. W. Hastings. | |
| 15. Pawtucket. | R. I. | Thos P. Barnefield. | |
| 16. Waltham | Mass. | G. A. Bates. | |
| 17. Abington | ” | Henry B. Pearce. | |
| 20. Canton | ” | E. L. Abbott. | |
| 21. Hudson. | ” | Rev. H. G. Gay. | |
| 22. Portland | Me. | H. F. Furbish. | |
| 23. Rockport | Mass | Rev. G. H. Vibbert. | |
| 24. Salem | ” | John W. Berry. | |
| 27.Ⓐemendation New Haven. | Conn: | R. P. Cowles. | |
| 28. Trenton. | N.J. | John Taylor. | |
| 29. Newark. | ” | G. L. Hutchins. | |
| 30. Wilkes-Barre. | Pa. | H. W. Palmer. | |
| 31. Williamsport | ” | J. A. Beeber. | |
| 1870. Jan. | 4. Owego | N.Y. | Ira F. Hart. Elmira N.Y. |
| 6. Amenia | ” | Joel Benton “Times ” | |
| 7. Cohoes | ” | Silas Owen | |
| 10. Albany | ” | Rob. W. C. Mitchell. | |
| 11. West Troy | ” | G. R. Meneely. | |
| 12. Rondout | ” | H. M. Crane. | |
| 13. Cambridge | ” | A. H. Comstock. | |
| 14. Utica | ” | W. P. Carpenter. | |
| 17. Baldwinsville | ” | W. F. Morris. |
Miss Olivia L. Langdon | 675 Fifth Avenue | New York. | flourish return address: young’s hotel, court avenue, boston, mass . postmarked: boston mass. Ⓐemendation nov. 29. 8. p.m. Ⓐemendation
The memo is in Fall’s hand. Among Clemens’s contacts at his various lecture stops were: S. E. Wasson, a Brooklyn teacher (see 4 Dec 69 and 6 Dec 69, both to Redpathclick to open link); T. B. Pugh, a Philadelphia impresario, whose popular “Star Course of Lectures” featured the leading performers of the day; James Oliver Perry Burnside (b. 1828); Lewis Randolph Hamersly (1847–1910), who later compiled several directories of military biography; John Marsellus (1846–1941), a clerk at the hosiery firm of William H. and Leonard C. Thorne, at 58 White Street, New York, and afterward a casket manufacturer; Thomas Pierce Barnefield (1844–99), a Rhode Island supreme-court reporter; the Reverend George H. Vibbert, a crusader for prohibition; Henry Wilbur Palmer (1839–1913), a Wilkes-Barre attorney and later a four-time Republican congressman from Pennsylvania; Ira F. Hart, an Elmira physician; poet Joel Benton (1832–1911), who managed the Amenia, New York, lecture course and was to be reached through the weekly Amenia Times, which he had edited from 1851 to 1856; George Rodney Meneely, proprietor of a bell foundry in West Troy, New York; Henry M. Crane; and William Penn Carpenter (see 8 Sept 69 and 21 Sept 69 to Craneclick to open link and 23 Sept 69 to Carpenterclick to open link).
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters. Edited by Paul Machlis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [In some cases, UCCL catalog numbers cited in this volume supersede those assigned in 1986 and reflect corrections or additions to the catalog since publication. An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page at MTPO.] 1986
- Wecter, Dixon. The Love Letters of Mark Twain. Edited by Dixon Wecter. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1949
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 3: 1869. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Dahlia Armon. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1992
MS, on the back of a two-page lecture itinerary written by George L. Fall of the Boston Lyceum Bureau, in the Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
LLMT , 360, brief paraphrase; L3 , 415–416.
see Samossoud Collection, p. 586.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.