to Francis E. Bliss and Frances T. French
15 September 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 00505)
We are obliged to send regrets, as we have a young lady friend permanently & seriously ill in the house (typhoid fever,) & the doctor gives us no encouragement that we & the hired nurses can cease to watch her for a month or two to come. We are obliged to send regrets to Charley Langdon also, (my wife’s brother), whose wedding comes off at the homestead in ElmiraⒶemendation the middle of October.1explanatory note
But we just wish you & the prospective bride2explanatory note the same amount of peace, & restful comfort, & absolute & unalloyed happiness as our new married life is filled with, fully aware that in wishing you this we are wishing you the sum of all earthly good.
Mrs Mr.Ⓐemendation and eventually Mrs Frank Bliss, Hartford.
Bliss and French were married at the bride’s home in Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, on 28 September (“Married,” Hartford Times, 30 Sept 70, 2; “Hartford Residents,” Bliss Family, 1).
References
- Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, Conn.
- 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
MS, Mark Twain House, Hartford (CtHMTH).
L4, 194.
Donated to CtHMTH in 1965 by George H. Gilman as part of the Elisha French Bliss Collection.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.