5 January 1874 • London, England (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01033)
Got a letter today—the third in a week—which is doing Ⓐemendation plenty well enough, my darling, considering how many duties you have to absorbd by your time. I have averaged a letter every day to you, since the day I sailed, I believe. I very often write you twice the same day; every now & then 3 times the same day; & once or twice 4 times in a day.1explanatory note
But all right, my darling, pretty soon we can talk face to face, & then never mind letters. I wrote Twichell today Ⓐemendation—(I got a letter to from him which I have mailed to you). I kiss you.
Of the fifty-nine letters Clemens might have written to Olivia (at an average of one per day) since sailing from New York on 8 November 1873, only twenty-nine are known to survive.
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
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
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see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.
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