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Source: Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif ([CSmH])

Cue: "Livy is doing"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v4

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To Mary Mason Fairbanks
5 November 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CSmH, UCCL 00525)
Dear Mother:

Livy is doing pretty well—doctor says t emendation she may drive a hundred yards every day, but I am a little afraid of it.

I want you back s emendation here just as quick as you can get through there at home. Susie will wait till then. Theodore appears to have mysteriously decided not to spend Sunday here—for which I am duly thankful. But he will die if he has to go ten days without seeing Sue. Charley writes me privately that Theodore remarked, when Sue came here, that “every time any of them in Buffalo had the stomach ache his wife had to go up there”—& intimated that he was tired of it. So you see we naturally want to send Sue home to the calf as soon as possible.1explanatory note

Come along here, now, as soon as possible, & prune my manuscript. Don’t delay.

Love to all of you from both of us, & hearty congratulations likewise for Allie, & full sympathy with her in her fair dreams of a fair future.2explanatory note

Lovingly Yr Son
Sam.

P. S. I am real sorry I wrote that letter.3explanatory note

Textual Commentary
5 November 1870 • To Mary Mason FairbanksBuffalo, N.Y.UCCL 00525
Source text(s):

MS, Huntington Library, San Marino (CSmH, call no. HM 14267).

Previous Publication:

L4 , 224; MTMF , 139–40.

Provenance:

see Huntington Library in Description of Provenance.

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

Explanatory Notes
1 

Susan Crane had arrived in Buffalo at the earliest on 29 October; she remained until 12 November (12 Nov 70 to the Twichellsclick to open link).

3 

Unidentified.

Emendations and Textual Notes
  t  ●  partly formed
  s  ●  partly formed; possibly ‘n’ or ‘r’
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