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CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ("Mark Twain"). Autograph letter signed ("Saml") to his wife, Livy, Havre, 7 February l89l. 2 pages, 8vo, on pale green paper, with original stamped envelope with panel addressed by Clemens.
"Dearheart, am I to spend Chawsday night in N.Y. & bring you hence Wednesday? Is that your idea? While you and Mrs. Beach are fraternising in Phila, I am corresponding with Mrs. Colt here -- at least I've written, yesterday....Don't we put the snap-word, the cracker, the emphatic word at the end of a sentence (where it is strongest) more habitually than do other nations, I mean other languages?
"Jean has gone to dancing school in great trouble, without her ticket, & half fearing non-admission. She would not allow me to write a note. But Ben [Clara, the middle daughter] says she won't have any trouble. At last the sun is trying to shine; but if I couln'd make a better fist of it I would join another system. However, I am not rheumaticked anywhere but in the shoulder, now, so I don't seriously mind the weather...."
"Dearheart, am I to spend Chawsday night in N.Y. & bring you hence Wednesday? Is that your idea? While you and Mrs. Beach are fraternising in Phila, I am corresponding with Mrs. Colt here -- at least I've written, yesterday....Don't we put the snap-word, the cracker, the emphatic word at the end of a sentence (where it is strongest) more habitually than do other nations, I mean other languages?
"Jean has gone to dancing school in great trouble, without her ticket, & half fearing non-admission. She would not allow me to write a note. But Ben [Clara, the middle daughter] says she won't have any trouble. At last the sun is trying to shine; but if I couln'd make a better fist of it I would join another system. However, I am not rheumaticked anywhere but in the shoulder, now, so I don't seriously mind the weather...."