To
Orion Clemens
12 May 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: CU-MARK, UCCL 01802)
12 May 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: CU-MARK, UCCL 01802)
May 12.
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My Dear Bro—Drop the book & give your entire mind to the newspaper. The bane of Americans
is
ovrerwork—& the ruin of any work is a divided 
interest. ConcencrateⒶemendation—concentrate. One thing at a time.
Yrs in haste
Sam.
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
Concencrate ●
sic
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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Manuscript Letters Now in the Mark Twain Papers. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 11 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
MS, correspondence card, CU-MARK.
MicroML, reel 4.
See Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.