12 January 1872 • Kittanning, Pa. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00715)
Livy darling, this is a filthy, stupid, hateful Dutch village, like all Pennsylvania—& I have got to lecture to these leatherheads tonight—but shall leave for Putt Pittsburgh Ⓐemendation at 3 in the morning, & spend Sunday in that black but delightful town.
Am up for dinners & things there.1explanatory note I love you, Livy darling.
Mrs. Samℓ. L. Clemens | Cor Forest & Hawthorne | Hartford | Conn. Ⓐemendation return address if not delivered within 10 days to be returned to pittsburgh pa. jan Ⓐemendation postmarked: pittsburg pa. jan 1◇
No reviews of Clemens’s performance in Kittanning have been found. With no lecture scheduled on the weekend, Clemens planned to make the thirty-five-mile rail journey back to Pittsburgh early on Saturday morning, 13 January. His favorable impression of Pittsburgh dated from his successful lectures there in November 1868 and November 1869 ( L2 , 282–83, 298; L3 , 382 n. 2).
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 5: 1872–1873. Edited by Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1997
- Wecter, Dixon. The Love Letters of Mark Twain. Edited by Dixon Wecter. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1949
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 2: 1867–1868. Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, Richard Bucci, and Lin Salamo. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1990
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 3: 1869. Edited by Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, and Dahlia Armon. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1992
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 21–22; LLMT , 173.
see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.
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