12 January 1872 • Kittanning, Pa. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 00715)
Livy darling, this is a filthy, stupid, hateful Dutch village, like all Pennsylvania—& I have got to lecture to these leatherheads tonight—but shall leave for Putt Pittsburgh Ⓐemendation at 3 in the morning, & spend Sunday in that black but delightful town.
Am up for dinners & things there.1explanatory note I love you, Livy darling.
Mrs. Samℓ. L. Clemens | Cor Forest & Hawthorne | Hartford | Conn. Ⓐemendation return address if not delivered within 10 days to be returned to pittsburgh pa. jan Ⓐemendation postmarked: pittsburg pa. jan 1◇
No reviews of Clemens’s performance in Kittanning have been found. With no lecture scheduled on the weekend, Clemens planned to make the thirty-five-mile rail journey back to Pittsburgh early on Saturday morning, 13 January. His favorable impression of Pittsburgh dated from his successful lectures there in November 1868 and November 1869 ( L2 , 282–83, 298; L3 , 382 n. 2).
MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).
L5 , 21–22; LLMT , 173.
see Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenance.