31 August 1871 • Elmira, N.Y. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00649)
We have scarcely any hope of the baby’s recovery.
Livy takes neither sleep nor rest.
We have 3 old experienced nurses.1explanatory note
Three months of overfeedingⒶemendation & surreptitious poisoning with laudanum & other sleeping potions is what the child is dying of.2explanatory note
O. Clemens Esq | 149 Asylum st | Hartford | Conn return address: return to mcintyre coal company, elmira, n. y., if not delivered within 10 days . postmarked: elmira n. y. aug 31 rubber stamped: mrs. orion clemens
All are unidentified, although one of them might have been the much trusted Margaret (21 June 71 to OC and MEC, n. 3click to open letter).
Langdon lived until 2 June 1872.
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L4 , 452–453.
see Mark Twain Papers in Description of Provenance.