To William Dean Howells
18 January 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: MH-H, UCCL 02892)
18 January 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: MH-H, UCCL 02892)
Jan. 18/84.
My Dear Howells—
This is admirable, & we must do it into a play, yet. I return it, lest I lose it.
Raymond still biting. Shall hear more, very soon.
Stu Charley W. stupidly forgot I told him to contract for the scissors. He will now attend to it.
Please do remember this: Mrs. LillyGeorge Warner grasped some door-knobs while her hands were greasy with Vasiline. When she came to fumigate, after scarlet fever, all others metals were destroyed, but those knobs were not affected. This knowledge could have saved us three or four hundred dollars if we had had it when we fumigated.
How is are John & Mrs Howells?
In haste
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, 2:464.
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