1? September 1882 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS, in pencil: NPV, UCCL 10882)
I write in great haste while waiting for the car, to say that Charley has made every thing perfectly satisfactory. I was greatly surprised and distressed when I learned that O. had written you about my affairs, but I could not complain because I knew he meant it for my good and yours. He however entirely misunderstood Charley and misconstrued his acts. I confess I was in a measure to blame for this, for some things I misunderstood myself. But O.’s judgement of C was far more severe than it should have jumped at conclusions that were not warranted by what I told him.
I will say for C that every time a misunderstanding is cleared up it leaves me with a higher opinion of him than ever before.
Well, Annie, you see there’s nothing so wholesome as an occasional storm. It clears the atmosphere. I think your mother one or two words canceled will end by having as high an opinion of Charley’s integrity & honorable intentions as I have halways had.
References
- Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
- 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- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters.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, on Pamela A. Moffett to SLC, 30 August 1882, UCLC 47288, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.