3 January 1874 • London, England (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01029)
Livy darling, it is 2 in the morning here, & about 9 in the evening in Hartford, or half past 8. I am imagining you to be in the parlor, & the Modoc1explanatory note d gone to bed. You are sitting by the table & the Warners are about to go home in the snow2explanatory note—& then you will go to bed too. Well Ⓐemendation, I wish I were there with you. Here, Stoddard & I have been talking & keeping a lonely vigil for hours—but I won’t talk of it any more.3explanatory note It is so unsatisfying. I want you—& nobody else. I do love you so.
Susy Clemens, who would be two years old in March. For the explanation of her nickname, see L5 , 409 n. 19.
Charles Dudley Warner and his wife, Susan, were Hartford neighbors of the Clemenses’.
Charles Warren Stoddard acted as Clemens’s secretary in London. He later described the many nights the two men spent conversing—and drinking cocktails—after Clemens’s lectures (see L5 , 477–78, 493).
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 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
- 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 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
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L6 , 4; LLMT , 189.
see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.
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