19 November 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. (MS: CtHMTH, UCCL 00539)
Thank you ever so much for the apples, Lang. says they are perfectly bully—& I endorse it & so does Livy.
Please tell Charley to send me a pair of those suspenders from Covell, Fay & Co.’s1explanatory note that require only 4 buttons,—2 on each side & two behind—send ’em CODⒶemendation.
Now mother, you must hurry & get strong enough to be here on Thanksgiving Day2explanatory note—& sooner if you can, for Livy is very lonely. She lets me go up to the study & work, (which I ought not to do & yet I am so dreadfully behind hand that I get blue as soon as I am idle)—I go up there & Livy sits lonely all day, for the room is dark & she cannot read—& most Ⓐemendationof the time Mrs. Smith is out in the kitchen with the baby.
Got Hattie’s letter & soap.3explanatory note Thanks.
We will wait a while & if that letter to Grandma don’t come back to me I will copy & send it again. Could Charley ask the p Postmaster at Elmira to help trace it? I will drop the Buffalo P.M. a line. I sometimes misdirect letters, but I can almost swear that this was distinctly directed to “Mrs. Eunice Ford, Elmira, N. Y.”4explanatory note
The Elmira haberdashery owned by Edward Covell and Cyrus W. Fay (Boyd and Boyd, 90).
Thursday, 24 November.
Possibly from Harriet Lewis (11 Nov 70 to Ford, n. 4click to open link).
It is not known whether the surviving 11 November letter to Eunice Ford was Clemens’s original or a second copy.
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
- Boyd, Andrew, and W. Harry Boyd, comps. Boyds’ Elmira and Corning Directory: Containing the Names of the Citizens, a Compendium of the Government, and Public and Private Institutions . . . 1872–3. Elmira, N.Y.: Andrew and W. Harry Boyd. 1872
MS, Mark Twain House, Hartford (CtHMTH).
L4 , 242.
donated to CtHMTH in 1962 by Ida Langdon.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.