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Source: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass ([MH-H])

Cue: "Please send me"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 2006-03-15T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 2006-03-15 was 1882.10.20

Published on MTPO: 2025

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To William Dean Howells
21? October 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: MH-H, UCCL 03010)
Dear Howells—

Please send me the Sellers play to get some truck out of for the pla◊t-form readings.

I am

I was glad & more than glad to meet young Hubbard again, & I prodigiously like the Colonel; ◊ the story starts most acceptably.

Ys Ever
Mark.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, in pencil, MH-H.

Previous Publication:

MTHL, 2:511–12.

Provenance:

see Howells Letters in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

References

  1. Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.
  2. 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
  3. 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
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