Hartford, Mch 20
My Dear Charley:
Bong voig
Bong voig to you, as the French say—th a remark which comes rather late, inasmuch as your journey is done. I wish you had given us another visit before you went away. We should have enjoyed it heartily.
You wouldn’t recognize our house to-day. The pictures are gone from the walls, the carpets from the floors, the curtains, the furniture, the books—everything has vanished away to the storage [warehouse], & the place, is empty, desolate, & filled with echoes. For two or three years the coachman & family will stand guard at the stable, with the horses, & a private estate man at the house & the horses & keep the conservatory blooming & the hanging flower-baskets flourishing in the balconies.
We are packing the trunks to-day.
We expect to sail Apl 11 in the Holsatia for Hamburg. In view of that sea-voyage—pray for us!
With Remember me the kindest you know how, to the Club boys.
With a power of love, old Charley, from me, & kind regards from the madam,
Yr Friend
Mark
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):Previous publication:AAA/Anderson catalog, 4–5 April 1934, no. 4098, lot 129, partial publication, recipient and date misidentified as Charles
Dudley Warner and 1891; AAA/Anderson catalog, 18–19 March 1936, no. 4242, lot 125, partial publication, recipient
misidentified as Charles Dudley Warner; G. A. Baker and Co. catalog, 30 March 1939, no. 23, lot 69, paraphrase, recipient
misidentified as Charles L. Webster; MicroPUL, reel 1.
Provenance:The MS was offered for sale in April 1934 by AAA/Anderson as part of the collection of the late Mr. and Mrs. William K. Bixby;
offered for sale in March 1936 by AAA/Anderson as part of the Abel Cary Thomas collection; and again offered for sale by G. A. Baker
in March 1939. It was acquired by MB
sometime thereafter.
Emendations and textual notes:
warehouse • ware-|house
