2 August 1872 • New Saybrook, Conn. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00784)
I wish Orion would go, some time within the next fortnight, & get the price of clean screened L Ⓐemendationehigh coal—& then go to Hatch & Tyler1explanatory note & if their price is similar, tell them to put ten tons of screened Lehigh into our cellar. And then I want y Downey to take particular note of how much of a pile it makes. I think it will fill the cellar; & I think that when I bought 36 tons of Hooker last fall, I bought more than the whole front yard would hold.
L Some day when you are down ◇ town, I wish you would buy me a dozen pairs of very fine, soft, white cotton socks—not those Lisle thread, but cotton. All my present socks appear to have darns on them. I infinitely prefer holes.
Livy keeps delighting herself over the little garment you made for h Ⓐemendation Susie, & so I judge she is as well pleased as possible with it.
O. K. | Cor Forest & Hawthorne | Hartford | Conn return address: From. S. L. Clemens Ⓐemendation postmarked: new saybrook conn. aug 3 1872
Hatch and Tyler, wholesale and retail coal dealers in Hartford, provided “Lehigh, Lackawanna, Wilkesbarre and other coals ... for domestic use” (Geer 1872, 150; “Coal,” Hartford Courant, 23 July 72, 3).
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 136–137.
see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.
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