To William Dean Howells
2 February 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NN-BGC, UCCL 02576)
2 February 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: NN-BGC, UCCL 02576)
Hartford Feb 2/84.
My Dear Howells:
I have just answered Cable’s telegram. When Cable gets well, a couple of weeks gets well, & the house calms down again out of its perfectly unspeakable & inconceivable present state, I can take up & consider business once more—say from one to two weeks hence.
Mallory spoke to me last night, & I put him off—it was between the acts—I had taken Livy to the theatre to give her a change of fatigues. He proposed to pester me between all the acts, but I disburdened him of that inspiration.
I’ve got to see Mallory’s proposed actor play before talking any business about the farce,—so there is no sort of use in reading the MS to Mallory yet.
In a mighty hurry
Mark
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
- 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, in pencil, NN-BGC.
MTHL, 2:466–67.
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