5 December 1872 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NPV, UCCL 00840)
Livy is so tired she makes me write the letter she meant to write herself. She wants you all to visit us during this winter; & can best accommodate two of you at a time—so she wants two of you (whichever 2 you please,) to come, choosing the date of your coming to suit yourselves, & letting us know what hour to expect you.
We have a letter from Annie today & an excellent photograph.
Orion has taken a house in Sigourney street, & will begin to moveⒶemendation in tomorrow.1explanatory note
We shall like to have a couple of you here for Christmas, if you feel like coming.2explanatory note
I don’t hear anything of Sammy’s engine, but it will be along presently. ItⒶemendation will have cost about $140 in greenbacks by the time it gets through the custom house, & I think it will be a very useful & entertaining toy.3explanatory note I took it in preference to a magic lantern I was going to buy for him. The lantern & fixtures took up too much room—got disgusted with it—it was too much like importing a stock of dry-goods.
Love to all.
Orion and Mollie Clemens’s stay at 55 Sigourney Street in Hartford would be short-lived. By 1 May 1873 Orion was working in Rutland, Vermont, and Mollie was apparently staying with the Moffett household in Fredonia (Schuyler Colfax to OC, 15 Feb 73, CU-MARK; 5 May 73 to OC and MEC, n. 1click to open letter).
MS, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Vassar College Library (NPV).
L5 , 771; MTBus , 121–22, with omission.
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.