16 August 1875 • Newport, R.I. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01256)
Neu wport, 16th
We send hearty congratulations & good wishes to Annie & Mr. W., & they must be sure to give us a visit when they come east.1explanatory note We are still here, miserably homesick, but st must not return before Sept. 8th or 10th.2explanatory note The children are in superb condition.
That is, on their wedding trip: Annie Moffett and Charles L. Webster were to be married on 28 September.
The Hartford heat, which the Clemenses were avoiding, was soon showing signs of abating. On 24 August the Hartford Courant predicted, “Such weather as that of yesterday will soon bring home many who are absent at summer resorts” (“Brief Mention,” 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 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).
L6 , 524.
see Moffett Collection in Description of Provenance.
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