13 March 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: MH-H, UCCL 02935)
I have been dead to all interests of this life for 5 days with an unspeakable cold in the head; so I don’t know what’s been going on. I haven’t seen the any mention of the Prince & Pauper, but I take said mention to mean that Webster & Mallory have come to a conclusion of some sort or other concerning Col. Sellers, for the reason that Webster was not to let Mallory see the P & P or talk any business about it until the Sellers matter should be disposed of. Webster wanted to come up & report, progress a day or two ago, but I telegraphed him to come tomorrow. This gives my cold one more show to let up on me. If he goes on to Boston he will report to you also; & if he doesn’t, I’ll write you. And this report will doubtless decide you to see Raymond or not. If you s talk with him, tell him our plan of repeating Sellers once or twice more & establishing him permanently as the American character, to be used by future generations of authors & actors as that Italian character is.
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, 2:478–79.
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