22 January 1873 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00861)
Ma & Annie have just come—7 PM. They have been steadily on the road, 31 hours., & are rather tired, but will be all right in the morning.1explanatory note
Ma says Sammy can’t run the engine because alcohol is expensive. IⒶemendation have given ma twenty dollars for Sammy to buy alcohol with—& so you can let him have the money as he needs it & ma will pay you. Let him get a mechanic to repair the engine where it leaks.2explanatory note
If Jane Clemens and Annie Moffett spent “31 hours” on the road from Fredonia, they may have stopped overnight in New York. The trip would normally have taken about nineteen hours by train, with good connections (“Traveler’s Guide,” Fredonia Censor, 22 Jan 73, 4; Jervis Langdon, Jr., 3–4; Baedeker 1893, 198).
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 279–280.
either Mark Twain Papers or Moffett Collection (see Description of Provenance).
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