13 December 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NN-B, UCCL 02481)
I want you to ask Mrs Howells to let you stay all night at the Parker House & tell lies & have an improving time, & take breakfast with me in the morning. I will have a good room for you, & a fire. Can’t you tell her it always makes you sick to go home late at night, or something like that? That sort of thing rouses Mrs Clemens’s sympathises, easily; the only trouble is to keep them up. Twichell & I talked till 2 or 3 in the morning, the night we suppedⒶemendation at your house,1explanatory note & it restored his health on account of his being drooping for some time & made him much more robuster than what he was before. Will Mrs. Howells let you?2explanatory note
On 13 November (see 14 Nov 74 to OLC, n. 1click to open link).
She did (see pp. 317–20).
References
- New York Public Library, Albert A. and Henry W. Berg Collection, New York
- 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
- Paine, Albert Bigelow. “Mark Twain: Some Chapters from an Extraordinary Life. Ninth Paper.” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 125 (July): 249–63. 1912
- Paine, Albert Bigelow. Mark Twain: A Biography. By Albert Bigelow Paine. 3 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers. [Volume numbers in citations are to this edition; page numbers are the same in all editions.] 1912
- Paine, Albert Bigelow, ed. Mark Twain’s Letters. Edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. 2 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1917
- 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, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (NN-B).
L6 , 315; Paine 1912, 250, excerpt; MTB , 1:536, excerpt; MTL , 1:239; MTHL , 1:53–54.
see Howells Letters in Description of Provenance.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.