31 December 1873 • London, England (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01022)
Dec. 31
Livy my darling, I re-enclosed to you, today, the note of some Boston autograph hunter1explanatory note—because I was in an ill humor. It Ⓐemendationoccurs to me, now, that I have vented the ill humor on you, not on the autograph seeker. Well, never mind, I forgive you.
Thirteen more days in England, & then I sail! If I only do get home safe, & find my darling & the Modoc well, I shall be a grateful soul. And if ever I do have another longing to leave home, even for a week, please dissipate it with a club. Sometimes I get so homesick I don’t know what to do.
Well, by & by it will all come right, no doubt. In the meantime I love you & honor you most sincerely
Mrs. Samℓ. L. Clemens | Hartford | Conn.Ⓐemendation in upper left corner: America. | rule on flap: slc postmarked: london-w zb de 30 73 2explanatory note and li and boston jan 14 paid Ⓐemendation
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 542–543; LLMT , 364, brief paraphrase.
see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.
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