To Richard M. Milnes (Lord Houghton)
29 October 1875 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: UkCU, UCCL 11622)

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.1

Yours s Sincerely

Samℓ. L. Clemens.

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1 Clemens answered the following invitation (CU-MARK):

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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).

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MS, Houghton Papers, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge University (UkCU). Published courtesy of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College.

Previous publication: L6, 579.

Provenance:The Houghton Papers were donated by the widow of the second Marquess of Crewe in 1959.