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Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "Don't know whether"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter] | envelope included"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v3

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To Olivia L. Langdon
29 November 1869 • Boston, Mass. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00381)
on back of itinerary as folded:

Don’t know whether you’ve got a copy of this or not, Livy darling.

All well, sweetheartemendation—I do love you, Livy—Livy I love you, honey.

boston lyceum bureau, no. 20 bromfield st.
james redpath. george l. fall. 1explanatory note

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

Textual Commentary
29 November 1869Olivia L. LangdonBoston, Mass.UCCL 00381
Source text(s):

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).

Previous Publication:

L3 , 415–416; LLMT , 360, brief paraphrase.

Provenance:

see Samossoud Collection, p. 586.

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Explanatory Notes
1 

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).

Emendations and Textual Notes
  sweetheart ●  sweet- | heart
  1. ●  what appears to be a second period follows, probably formed when Fall was rechecking the information; similar marks appear after ‘3.’, ‘13.’, ‘14.’, ‘16.’, and ‘Morris.’ (415.13, 24, 25, 27, and 416.16)
  Berry. | 27. ●  Berry. || Dec. 27. repeat of ‘Dec.’ occasioned by page break in MS
  boston mass.  ●  ◇◇s ton mas ◇◇ badly inked
  29. 8.p.m.  ●  29. 8. p.m. badly inked
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