[Rarebooks] FS: Fine SIGNED Letter from Mark Twain to Thomas Bailey Aldrich

[Charles Agvent]

One of 50 Fine Items from our new  LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS & LETTERS: Part 
4 Catalog

TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to Thomas 
Bailey Aldrich. Hartford. A fine two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) 
on one side of two 5-1/2" x 8-3/4" sheets of paper SIGNED "Mark" to 
author Thomas Bailey Aldrich letting him know that he must cancel their 
plans for a visit by Aldrich and his wife to them due to Mrs. Clemens's 
health, going into detail about doctors and the health of his wife with 
a promise to reschedule. In part: "We are both grieved with this 
verdict, yet it was to be expected, for Mrs. Clemens's pulse ranged from 
130 to 150 during one night & a part of two days, & consequently the 
consumption of her forces (considering the poverty of the stock in the 
first place), was necessarily very great.... This morning she developed 
a virulent quinsy --an odd thing to be glad about, & yet the gang of us 
were never gladder in our lives than when the physician delivered this 
news, for we had been feeling dead certain that the diptheria was back 
again & disaster hanging over us.... Being night-nurse, I must cut short 
& go on duty, now." Olivia Langdon Clemens suffered numerous bouts of 
illness in her life, making this hard to date exactly. The Clemens 
family lived in Hartford from 1871 to 1891. Near Fine. (#020959) $5,000

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