5 January 1874 • London, England (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01033)
Got a letter today—the third in a week—which is doing Ⓐemendation plenty well enough, my darling, considering how many duties you have to absorbd by your time. I have averaged a letter every day to you, since the day I sailed, I believe. I very often write you twice the same day; every now & then 3 times the same day; & once or twice 4 times in a day.1explanatory note
But all right, my darling, pretty soon we can talk face to face, & then never mind letters. I wrote Twichell today Ⓐemendation—(I got a letter to from him which I have mailed to you). I kiss you.
Of the fifty-nine letters Clemens might have written to Olivia (at an average of one per day) since sailing from New York on 8 November 1873, only twenty-nine are known to survive.
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L6 , 13.
see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.
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