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Source: CU-MARK ([CU-MARK])

Cue: "Livy darling, I took"

Source format: "MS, correspondence card, in pencil"

Letter type: "correspondence card"

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To Olivia L. Clemens
15 July 1877 • New York, N.Y. (MS, correspondence card, in pencil: CU-MARK, UCCL 01450)
Sunday P.M.

slcLivy darling, I took the Erie transfer coach at on the Jersey City,Ⓐemendation side, & liked it. It is big, roomy, clean. It came by ferry boat to 23d street, & deposited me at the hotel without delay—myself & trunk for 75 cents. I go to Hartford in the morning, but I loathe the trip. It is now about the middle of the afternoon; breakfasted in bed, & have just got up. Baggage car took fire yesterday. The play was in danger. However, I could have re-written it without great difficulty.1explanatory note Am expecting fuⒶemendation Fuller every moment, now.2explanatory note I love you, darling, & was so sorry you were “low” when I left. Cheer up!

Saml.

Mrs. Saml. L. Clemens | Elmira | N. Y. postmarked: new-york e july 16 7am

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, in pencil, CU-MARK.

Previous Publication:

MicroML, reel 4.

Provenance:

See Samossoud Collection in Description of Provenanceclick to open letter.

Explanatory Notes
1 The manuscript of Cap’n Simon Wheeler, The Amateur Detective that Clemens took to New York was evidently a holograph. Later in 1877 Clemens’s secretary, Fanny C. Hesse, made a security copy of it. Both the holograph and the copy survive in the Mark Twain Papers.
2 Clemens and Frank Fuller were going to discuss their ongoing investment in two devices invented by H. C. Bowers, a “Salt-Water Evaporator” and a “Circulating Steam-Generator” intended to power a tugboat. Clemens lost about $5,000 on the latter, causing a temporary estrangement from Fuller in the early 1880s (23 Apr 1877 to OLC, n. 1; U.S. Patent Office 1877, 479–80; Fuller to SLC, 23 Feb 1880 and 23 Mar 1882, CU-MARK).
Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  City,  •  deletion implied
Ⓐ  fu  •  ‘u’ partly formed
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