To
Olivia L. Clemens
11 March 1877 • Boston, Mass. (MS, correspondence card in pencil: Christie’s,
New York, December 1991, UCCL 02863)
(SUPERSEDED)
11 March 1877 • Boston, Mass. (MS, correspondence card in pencil: Christie’s,
New York, December 1991, UCCL 02863)
(SUPERSEDED)
Howells’s 5
Sunday.
slc
Sunday.
Livy darling, we perplexed ourselves all day yesterday over plots & counter plots, & dreamed over them all night. Unsatisfactory. We drop back, now, to the original proposition—Howells to write the play, dropping in the skeleton of Orm’s speeches, I to take him, later, & fill him out. I expect to remain at Parker’s in Boston, tomorrow & return home Tuesday. I love you my darling.
Saml
Mrs. Samℓ. L. Clemens | Hartford | Conn return address: the atlantic monthly the riverside press, cambridge, mass. postmarked: boston mass. mar 11
Christie’s catalog, 5 December 1991, lot 193, partial publication. The catalog misdates the envelope postmark 1886; MicroPUL, reel 1.
Chester L. Davis, Sr., probably acquired the MS from Clara Clemens Samossoud sometime between 1949 and 1962 (see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance). After his death in 1987, the MS was owned by Chester L. Davis, Jr., who sold it through Christie’s in December 1991.