7 December 1873 • London, England (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00993)
Livy darling, I love you. I went thro’ a rehearsal Ⓐemendation of my “Roughing It” lecture to-day (Sunday) & it seems to be all right. I think I shall enjoy delivering it. This is fatiguing work, my love—but in a day or two I hope I shall get to writing you regularly again. Did you never get a telegram from me at Queenstown? I sent one.1explanatory note
Bliss must hurry up the book if I am to copyright Ⓐemendation it here.2explanatory note I love you.
Mrs. Samℓ. L. Clemens | Hartford | Conn in upper left corner: America. | flourish postmarked: london-w 7 de 8 73 and new york dec 20 paid all Ⓐemendation
The Gilded Age. See 22 Dec 73 to OLC (2nd), n. 2click to open link.
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
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 495; LLMT , 364, brief paraphrase.
see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.