I have enveloped it & prepared it to go to the Century, after Mrs. Clemens shall have had a perusal of it. Of course it pleases me—that goes without saying—& I hope the public will be willing to see me with your eyes. I shouldn’t ask anything better than that. Well, I am mighty gla◊d you had time & the disposition to write it.

We leave here the 22d, D. V.,—for Mrs. Clemens never alters a schedule: once decided, always decided, with her. Pity we can’t see you folks again, but evidently both these families are too busy with journey-preparations to allow of any present visitings.

I don’t think I ever knew Mrs. Clemens to take such a strong liking for anybody on a first acquaintance as she took to Col. Fairchild; so you can assure him that if we could have got to Boston for his dinner, it would most surely have been done. We both wanted to go, badly enough.