January 21 Friday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.
Dear Paine,—Thanks for your letter, and for its contenting news of the situation in that foreign and far-off and vaguely-remembered country where you and Loomis and Lark and other beloved friends are.
I have Letter from Clara this morning. She is solicitous, and wants me well and watchfully taken care of. My, she ought to see Helen and her parents and Claude administer that trust!
Also the says: “I hope to hear from you or Mr. Paine very soon.”
I am writing her, and I know you will respond to your part of her prayer. She is pretty desolate now, after Jean’s emancipation—the only kindness God ever did that poor unoffending child in all her hard life.
Ys ever
S .L. C,
Send Clara a copy of Howells’s gorgeous letter, I want a copy of my article that he is speaking of [MTP: Paine’s 1917 Mark Twain’s Letters’ p.838}.