CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Autograph letter signed ("Saml.") to his wife Livy in Hartford, Great Barrington, Mass., "Midnight," n.d. [October 1881?], one page, 8vo, in pencil, with original stamped envelope addressed by Clemens: "The lecture went off very handsomely, to a crowded house -- & now i'm going to bed -- for I love you very very much (& am sleepy & stupid)..."; Autograph letter signed ("Saml.") to his wife Livy in Paris, New York, 5 October 1893, one page, 8vo, on stationery of The Players (club), with original stamped envelope addressed by Clemens: "If yesterday's giving-away of L.A.L. [the Library of American Literature, which had become a financial millstone for his publishing firm and which he was trying to dispose of] is made certain to-day, I will venture to cable you 'Things look better,' or something of the sort..."; Incomplete autograph letter (first page only) to his wife Livy in Hartford, Montreal, "Midnight," 7 December [1881], one page, 8vo, with original-stamped envelope addressed by Clemens, with a newspaper clipping from a Montreal paper (an interview with Clemens) inscribed by him: "For Susie...to read." The letter concerns a lecture Clemens was giving in Montreal: "I have just finished my long day's work this minute -- & hang it, after all, my speech stands exactly as it did at this hour last night. What I wrote to-day was good, but I can't get it in; the speech would be too long. So I have put all aside, left the speech as it was before, copied it, & memorized it...It's good easy-flowing nonsense, and will go, if there are enough English people present to understand it. but anyway I'm safe, because I wind up in French -- if one may call it that." (4)