To
Elizabeth S. Stevens
12 June 1879 • Paris, France (MS: DLC, UCCL 01667)
12 June 1879 • Paris, France (MS: DLC, UCCL 01667)
Paris, June 12.
My Dear
Miss Stephens—The following is the only poem I find among the canned sentiments in the storehouse of my memory which appears to feel as I do about it:
My pen is bad, my ink is pale,
But my affection for you will
never fail.
Yours
S. L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Miss Stevens | E./V.
References
- United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- 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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
MS, DLC.
MicroPUL, reel 1.
Gift of Elizabeth S. Stevens in July 1917.
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