To James R. Osgood
per Telegraph Operator
1? March 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript and paraphrase: William Dean Howells to SLC, 2 March 1882, CU-MARK, UCCL 10437)
per Telegraph Operator
1? March 1882 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript and paraphrase: William Dean Howells to SLC, 2 March 1882, CU-MARK, UCCL 10437)
Boston, March 2, 1882.
My dear Clemens:
Osgood has sent me your telegram saying, “wont let howells Back out.” I suppose that this means come; and I expect to be down on you by the train leaving here at 4 Saturday afternoon.
Yours ever
W. D. Howells.
References
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- 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
- Machlis, Paul, ed. Union Catalog of Letters to Clemens. Edited by Paul Machlis, with the assistance of Deborah Ann Turner. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. [An updated version of the catalog can be consulted via the Letters Search page atMTPO.] 1992
- 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
- Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain’s Previously Unpublished Letters. Prepared by Anh Quynh Bui, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Robert H. Hirst, Lin Salamo, and Harriet Elinor Smith. 8 vols. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library. 2001
Transcript and paraphrase, William Dean Howells to SLC, 2 March 1882, CU-MARK, UCLC 41052.
MTHL, 2:392; MicroPUL, reel 2.
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