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).
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).
L3 , 415–416; LLMT , 360, brief paraphrase.
see Samossoud Collection, p. 586.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.