To
Olivia L. Clemens
13 January 1874 • Liverpool, England (Paraphrase: OLC to MEC, 11 and 14 Jan 74, NPV, UCCL 11914)
13 January 1874 • Liverpool, England (Paraphrase: OLC to MEC, 11 and 14 Jan 74, NPV, UCCL 11914)
A dispatch rec’d from “Sam” yesterday (13th) stated that he was “just starting”, that is five days earlier thanⒶemendation he expected to sail—1explanatory note
Explanatory Notes
1
This letter is known to survive only insofar as Olivia reported its contents to her sister-in-law Mollie Clemens in a letter of 11 and 14 January 1874. Clemens originally planned to sail for New York on 17 January aboard the Abyssinia. By 30 December he had changed to the Parthia, which departed Liverpool on 13 January and arrived in Boston on 26 January ( L5 , 523, 541–42).
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ
than ●
that
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
- Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 5: 1872–1873. Edited by Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 1997
Paraphrase in MS, Olivia L. Clemens to Mary E. (“Mollie”) Clemens, 11 and 14 Jan 74 (01039), Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, Vassar College Libraries (NPV). MS facsimile is copy-text for the letter, since the editors have not seen the MS.
L6 , 20.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.