17 November 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 01154)
We must apologize again for our shameless delay in getting out to lunch. If Mrs. Howells will forgive & forget, we will always be strictly on time henceforth.1explanatory note
Mrs. Clemens gets upon the verge of swearing & goes tearing around in an unseemly fury when I enlarge upon the delightful time we had in Boston & she not there to have her share. I think she will be mighty sure to be along when we go again. I have tried hard to reproduce Mrs. Howells to her, & have probably not made a shining success of it. Jo & I had so much to talk about that the train got here before we were expecting that event.
With the kindest regards to all the Howells household,
See the previous letter, n. 3.
References
- Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Clemens Letters. Edited by Paul Machlis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [In some cases, UCCL catalog numbers cited in this volume supersede those assigned in 1986 and reflect corrections or additions to the catalog since publication. An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page at MTPO.] 1986
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
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MS, Houghton Library, Harvard University (MH-H, shelf mark bMS Am 1784 [98]).
L6 , 285–286; MTB , 1:530, excerpt; MTHL , 1:41.
see Howells Letters in Description of Provenance.
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