To
Richard M. Milnes (Lord Houghton)
29 October 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: UkCU, UCCL 11622)
29 October 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: UkCU, UCCL 11622)
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Hartford Oct. 29
My Lord:
Mrs. Clemens & I go to Boston today to visit until Nov. 1st, but I shall gladly run down to New York & breakfast with you the next day.1explanatory note
Yours s
Sincerely
Samℓ. L. Clemens.
Explanatory Notes
1
Clemens answered the following invitation (CU-MARK):
The occasion was the breakfast “to literary men” that Houghton gave “in one of the parlours up-stairs” at the Brevoort House. No guests other than Clemens have been identified. Houghton left for Philadelphia on Wednesday, 3 November (T. Wemyss Reid, 2:324).
References
- University of Cambridge, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, England
- 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
- SLC (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Mark Twain’s Letters, Volume 6: 1874–1875. Edited by Michael B. Frank and Harriet Elinor Smith. The Mark Twain Papers. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Also online at MTPO[bib32371]. 2002
- University of California, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley
- Reid, T. Wemyss. The Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes, First Lord Houghton. Introduction by Richard Henry Stoddard. 2 vols. New York: Cassell Publishing Company. 1891
MS, Houghton Papers, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge University (UkCU). Published courtesy of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College.
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The Houghton Papers were donated by the widow of the second Marquess of Crewe in 1959.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.