16 January 1872 • Pittsburgh, Pa. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00718)
Livy Ⓐemendation darling, in the course of an hour I shall b Ⓐemendation take the train for Lock Haven. It goes at 3 in the morning.1explanatory note I must do some packing, bill-paying & so forth, & this note is merely to tell you that I love you, & that if ever I get through with this tour alive I never want to take another, even for a month. I love you, darling.
Mrs Samℓ. L. Clemens | Cor Forest & Hawthorne Ⓐemendation | Hartford | Conn.Ⓐemendation return address: if not delivered within 10 days, to be returned to postmarked: pittsburgh pa. jan 16
His lecture of 15 January at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, having been canceled (see the next letter), Clemens had extended his stay in Pittsburgh another day. On the evening of 16 January he lectured in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, where he also received the following letter from Olivia (CU-MARK), written on 9 January in reply to his 4 January letter from Dayton:
My Darling
I have been so interupted that nearly all the time that I had set apart for a visit with you is gone— Sue and Theodore and Clara have gone out for a ride— I have been having a good time with baby part of the day today, he is a glorious little fellow—he has his second tooth, he has twice today said something very like Papa— I talk papa at him a good deal of the time——
Evening
Have had a perfect evening at the Warners, I hope yet that you will go to Dr. Bartons, Mr Warner says it is not their habit to get up in the morning, they never do—soberly he says, just tell them that you don’t want to be called & it will be all right—I wish you could escape one of those forlorn hotels, besides I think it would be so pleasant for you to see them as you have mutual friends——but of course Darling just as you feel—
Oh it is so sweet to love you, I like to do it— I have ever so much to write you, but I am feeling just a little light headed tonight, so think I best go to bed—it is nearly eleven——
with just a bit of love
Livy—
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 27; LLMT , 362, brief paraphrase.
see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.
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