24 January 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence card: CSmH, UCCL 04130)
slc P. S. (to the letter which is in my head & which I have not time to get out.) You come here & see us, when you arrive east, & we will talk. I hate writing——however, that has become a platitude in my mouth. I finished a book last week, & am shirking all other duties in order to give the whole remnant of my mind to a most painstaking revision of it—for this book is not a humorous but a serious work, & may damn me, tho’ Livy says No. I do wish you would come & read it in MS & judge it, before it goes to the printers. Will you? You shall have till March 1st—5 weeks.
cross-written on front of card: Livy & all the babies join me & beg you to come, & bring Mollie.
Mrs. A. W. Fairbanks | Weddell House | Cleveland | Ohio return address: return to s. l. clemens, hartford, conn., if not delivered within 10 days. postmarked: hartford conn. jan 24 6pm and ◊◊am recd. Ⓐemendation remainder of postmark illegible
References
- Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif.
- 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 to Mrs. Fairbanks. Edited by Dixon Wecter. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library. 1949
MS, CSmH, call no. HM 14309.
MTMF, 255.
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