To
William Dean Howells
22 April 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 01790)
22 April 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 01790)
Thursday.
My Dear Howells:
I have scribbled this to-day—maybe it may do for the Club, I dunno.
When you can, I want you to give me the exact date of your hegira or exodus into Hartford, (if that is the right phrase,) because I want to fetch up the Rightful Earl & have that interview. He has invented a swimming apparatus, & wants me to lend him $200 to shove it withⒶemendation, but I don’t calculate to do that.
Ys Ever
Mark.
Emendations and Textual Notes
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 , 1:301.
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