From Olivia L. and
Samuel L. Clemens to
Susan L. Crane
26 or 27 February 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. ( MTB , 1:409, UCCL 00434)
26 or 27 February 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. ( MTB , 1:409, UCCL 00434)
. . . .
Sue, we are two as happy people as you ever saw. Our days seem to be made up of only bright sunlight, with no shadow in them.
. . . .
Livy pines & Ⓐemendation pines every day for you, & I pine & pine every day for you, & when we both of us are pining at once you would think it was a whole pine forest let loose.1explanatory note
. . . .
Explanatory Notes
1
These fragments cannot be precisely dated, but may belong to the letter Olivia promised her father on 26 February.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
& ●
and three times;
also at 80.24
References
- Paine, Albert Bigelow. Mark Twain: A Biography. By Albert Bigelow Paine. 3 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers. [Volume numbers in citations are to this edition; page numbers are the same in all editions.] 1912
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters. Edited by Paul Machlis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [In some cases, UCCL catalog numbers cited in this volume supersede those assigned in 1986 and reflect corrections or additions to the catalog since publication. An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page at MTPO.] 1986
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 4: 1870–1871. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1995
MTB , 1:409.
L4 , 80–81.