20 December 1873 • London, England (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01010)
Livy darling, I am about to go to the hall, to deliver my last lecture in London. Presently I shall be free! All this time my health has been simply splendid. I never have taken such good care of myself before—& so my digestion is perfect.
I make this lecture go handsomely. I like it much better than the Sandwich Islands, & so does everybody.
Good bye my darling—shall see you by Feb. 1.! Hurrah!
Mrs. Samℓ. L. Clemens | Hartford | Conn. in upper left corner: America. | rule on flap: slc/mt postmarked: london • w 7 de 22 73 and new york jan ◇ paid all Ⓐemendation
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
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MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 524; LLMT , 364, brief paraphrase.
see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.
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