4 January 1878 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 01522)
The play is enchanting. I laughed & cried all the way through it. The dialogue is intolerably brilliant; one hadn’t nd time to see where one ◇ lightning-burst struck before another followed. I cannot remember when I have spent so delightful an evening in a theatre. Ah, if I only had my old fool of a detective mooning & meddling along through a play like that, once, his fame & fortune would be made. My wife, & Lily & Charley Warner enjoyed the piece as heartily & unreservedly as I did.
Love to you all.
Dear me, Winine Winnie didn’t put her name in our Visitor’s Register! That Ask her to send it to me on a slip of paper, so that I can paste it in.
References
- 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
- MTHL. Mark Twain–Howells Letters. Edited by Henry Nash Smith and William M. Gibson, with the assistance of Frederick Anderson. 2 vols. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1960
MS, MH-H, shelf mark bMS Am 1784 (98).
MTHL , 1:216.
See Howells Letters in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.