18? February 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CtY-BR, UCCL 02132)
The Holbrooks always lose ⅔ of their Koomiss, too, I believe, in unbottling. Now there is no sense in all people being idiots: take a big 2-quart pickle-jar, up-end your Koomis-bottle, & uncork downwards into that. Then you’ll save it all.
Patrick says he asked, at Moses’s, for Loefland’s Extract of Malt, & showed them my spelling of the name—& they said “all right” & handed him the bottle which reached you. Maybe it is all right; still, the first time you are sending down town, you better get Loefland’s.
I always told you to keep a few sermons ahead—write them in the woods instead of always loafing. If I knew the ropes channel I’d write you one, cheerfully.
House is gietting better & better.
Very very sorry Harmony had a bad knight, but mighty thankful that she takes to the h Koumiss.
MS, Joseph H. Twichell Collection, CtY-BR.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
Twichell's papers were passed on to his children. Although CtY received some items in 1951 from Joseph H. Twichell and Mrs. Charles Ives, his son and daughter, the main collection was donated in 1967 by Charles P. Twichell, his grandson.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.