3 September 1881 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: CtHMTH, UCCL 02024)
I owe you money on that hotel bill, but we will let her rest, for the present, as I am in bed, exhausted by six days’ work done in three.
I musn’t be writing letters; but this [is] only a note. I wanted to say, I’m away out here in the woods, farⒶemendation from all sources of information, & I want to ask you what I had better do about the Omaha pf & Omaha common? Sell at the price I paid, or leave them alone a while longer? Of course I would prefer to sell each at an advance of about 4 points. This would average my d Denver very neatly, & make my 200 stand me in about 85.
in ink: F. G. Whitmore, EsqⒶemendation | Montowese House | Branford | Conn return address: return to s. l. clemens,Ⓐemendation hartford, conn., if not delivered within 10 days. postmarked: elmira n.y. remainder of postmark torn away and new york transit sep 6 81 10 30am and branford conn. sep 6
MS, in pencil, CtHMTH.
MicroPUL, reel 2.