31 August 1871 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00649)
We have scarcely any hope of the baby’s recovery.
Livy takes neither sleep nor rest.
We have 3 old experienced nurses.1explanatory note
Three months of overfeedingⒶemendation & surreptitious poisoning with laudanum & other sleeping potions is what the child is dying of.2explanatory note
O. Clemens Esq | 149 Asylum st | Hartford | Conn return address: return to mcintyre coal company, elmira, n. y., if not delivered within 10 days . postmarked: elmira n. y. aug 31 rubber stamped: mrs. orion clemens
All are unidentified, although one of them might have been the much trusted Margaret (21 June 71 to OC and MEC, n. 3click to open link).
Langdon lived until 2 June 1872.
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- 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 Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L4 , 452–453.
see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.