27 September 1878 • Venice, Italy (MS: MH-H, UCCL 01597)
Have I offended you in some way? The Lord knows it is my disposition, my infirmity, to do such things; but if I have done it in your case, I can truthfully say that if I had known it at the time, I would not have done it, & if it were to do again I would not do it—& in any case I am sorry.
I started to write a thing today which has been in my mind, but these thoughts came into my head instead.
I wish you were Consul here, for we want to stay a year, & would do so in that case—but as it is, I suppose we shall stay only 3 or 4 weeks.
Our address (for want of a better) is still Heidelberg, Care of Consul E. M. Smith, Lang’s Hotel. Drop us a postal-card when you get this.
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
- 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 , 1:239.
See Howells Letters in Description of Provenance.
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