1 Clemens enclosed the manuscript of the first installment of “Old Times on the Mississippi,” which appeared in the Atlantic in January 1875. Howells replied (CU-MARK):

Clemens might have enclosed the photographs for Elinor Howells in his second letter of November 20, if it was written late in the day on Saturday, but it is also possible that he sent them in an unrecovered letter on 21 November (for the photographs of Susy and Clara, see pp. 682, 683; for the likely image of the Hartford house see 26 Jan? 75 to Brush). Such a letter might have included mention of Twichell’s response to the Limerick fantasy, as well as commentary on the supposed affinity with Charles Lamb, although Twichell could have raised those matters himself in a letter to Howells. Of course Howells knew that Clemens’s middle name was “Langhorne,” but his joke may have been a play on the family name “Lampton” (see the next letter, n. 4).