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Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "Livy, My Darling, I had"

Source format: "MS, correspondence card, in pencil"

Letter type: "correspondence card"

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To Olivia L. Clemens
27 April 1877 • Baltimore, Md. (MS, correspondence card, in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 01418)
Friday Night.

slcLivy My Darling, I had a jolly adventure last night with a chap from the “Eastern Shore”1explanatory note—you must remind me to tell you about it when I get home. I spent 4 hours in the State Prison2explanatory note to-day, after rehearsal, but it would take a book to hold all I saw & heard. Am too tired to-nightⒶemendation to write—will only say I’m homesick, & that the old song lies when it says that “absence conquers love.”

Saml

cross-written: Thanks for your second letter which is just received

in ink: Mrs. S. L. Clemens | Hartford | Conn. | flourish return address: if not delivered within 10 days, to be returned to postmarked: baltimore md. apr 28 9am

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Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, in pencil, CU-MARK.

Previous Publication:

MicroML, reel 4.

Provenance:

See Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Explanatory Notes
1 The area of Maryland on the Delaware, or eastern, side of Chesapeake Bay. It was a somewhat independent-spirited region that resented the disparagement it felt it received from “western shore” cities, such as Baltimore (Bode 1978, map facing xi, 74–80).
2 The Maryland Penitentiary in Baltimore was built in 1811. After the Civil War it came under criticism for its poor treatment of prisoners. The Maryland Prisoners’ Aid Association, organized in 1869, had succeeded in carrying out a number of reforms, possibly the reason for Clemens’s interest (Kte’pi 2012, 3:1074).
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  to-night ●  to- | night
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