26 July 1880 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, correspondence card: MH-H, UCCL 01819)
I have been up all night helping to receive Miss Clemens, who arrived perfectly sound but with no more baggage than I had when I was on the river. I will go to bed, now—merely adding that it is a girl again & mother & child are doing quite well, & the latter weighs about 7 pounds. That is a pretty big one—for us. rule from partially obscured ‘7’ above to ‘7’
I sincerely wish I could go, with you & Warner & Aldrich, but the journey is too prodigious; moreover, as Mrs. Clemens gets only harassed cat-naps instead of honest sleep when I am away, I shan’t venture to leave her for a month or two yet.
References
- Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.
- 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
- MTHL. Mark Twain–Howells Letters. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and William M. Gibson, with the assistance of Frederick Anderson. 2 vols. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1960
MS, correspondence card, MH-H, shelf mark bMS Am 1784 (98).
MTHL , 1:318.
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