3 February 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01903 and UCLC 40691)
Send the enclosed to Sam. It is from a friend & admirer of his. The Californian Hoar he speaks of, is a son an enterprising c son of Judge Hoar of Massachusetts—a young fellow of fine character——& comes of fine old stock, you see. Chamberlaine is sure that his H.'s experience & advice would be valuable to Sam, out there where honorable & disinterested advisers are pretty hard to run across.
We are all thriving, here, & hope you & Ma & the rest can say the same.
You may think it a good long way to send young Moffit; a matter of 75 miles from St. Barbara, but my friend Hoar laughs at such a bit of road. At any rate I will give you the address & Moffit can do what he pleases—
It is,
Charles E. Hoar
Rancho Simi
Ventura County
California.
E. H says this is the address, but it seemed to me an insufficient one for P. O. purposes—so I made him detail— The nearest post office is San Buena Ventura, probably the county town— Distance about 75 miles South from Santa Barbara.
Charles Hoar, son of E. R. H. has been on this rancho some years, & is doing well—has about 10 000 sheep & other things to correspond. He hires the estate of 20 000 acres & sublets a portion for wheat raising— He enjoys it & considers himself successful, although he could do better if he owned the property—& has hopes of doing so next year—price $40.000—
Another Concord boy is on the same property, though not living with Hoar—Charles Wise, originally of Baltimore.
In your place I should strongly recommend to S. M. to see them both, particularly C. Hoar— He may use my name as much as he likes.
Am not very well today & suspect my old bones are crumbling with the cold. Remember us most kindly to Mrs Clemens & Miss Clara & believe me
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
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Letters to Clemens. Edited by Paul Machlis, with the assistance of Deborah Ann Turner. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page atMTPO.] 1992
- 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, CU-MARK, is source text for the letter; MS, A. P. Chamberlaine to SLC, 1 February 1881, CU-MARK, UCLC 40691, is source text for the enclosure.
MicroML, reel 4.
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