To George Washington Cable
17 July 1881 • Branford, Conn. (MS: LNT, UCCL 01985)
17 July 1881 • Branford, Conn. (MS: LNT, UCCL 01985)
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farmington avenue, hartford
July 17/81.
My Dear Mr. Cable—
The book has come; I read it last night, & the charm of it, & the pain of it, & the deep music of it are still pulsing through me. I could echo Howells’s strong admirations, now, if he were here. (He spent a day with me last week, & we had much pleasant talk of you & your books.) Howells is still in the mind to go to New Orleans with me in November for the Mississippi trip, & we shall hope to see you then. Maybe you could find time to visit a Creole camp with us.
With sincere thanks, I am
Truly Yours
S. L. Clemens.
References
- Tulane University, New Orleans, La.
- 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
- Cardwell, Guy A. Twins of Genius. [East Lansing]: Michigan State College Press. 1953
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
MS, George Washington Cable Papers, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, LNT.
Cardwell 1953, 81; MicroPUL, reel 2.
The Cable Papers were acquired in 1944 and after from Mary Cable Dennis and others.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.