To William Dean Howells
4 November 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: MH-H, UCCL 02854)
4 November 1883 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: MH-H, UCCL 02854)
Sunday.
My Dear Howells—
I telegraphed last night “Come Wednesday” because Mrs. Clemens has a menagerie on her hands from now till Tuesday evening—the preparation & achievement of a big lunch party of old ladies to meet her mother.
Raymond strenuously objects to my terms, thus far, but I have no others to offer him. Meantime I have instructed Webster to look sharp for the right actor, & when he thinks he has found him, I will go to New York & see him play. You better watch & inquire—we might strike the right man there.
Raymond is to play the old play in New York after Xmas. So he thinks—but doubtless I’ll spring quite a disorganiz [i]ng surprise on him before that.
Yrs Ever
Mark
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, in pencil, MH-H.
MTHL, 1:447–48.
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