To
Olivia L. Clemens
1 May 1873 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript: CU-MARK, UCCL 00911)
1 May 1873 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript: CU-MARK, UCCL 00911)
May 1.
Livy dear, are you really well? No letter today—only 2 since you have been gone, & it seems to me that I have written 15 or 16—16 I think.
Love to the muggins—et sa mere.
Saml.
Mrs Saml L. Clemens | Elmira | N. Y.1explanatory note
Explanatory Notes
1
The source for this letter is a typed transcript of the original manuscript, whose location is no longer known. Although the address is transcribed at the head of the letter, it must have been taken from an envelope (or possibly from the verso of a postcard). None of the letters Olivia wrote to her husband in 1873 is known to survive.
Typed transcript, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK). The transcript as corrected by Dixon Wecter (presumably by comparing it with the MS) serves as copy-text. Changes deemed to be simple corrections of typing errors or omissions are not reported.
L5 , 360–361.
The MS was part of the Samossoud Collection in the late 1940s when it was transcribed by Wecter; its present location is not known (see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance).
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.