editorial office of the atlantic monthly. the riverside press, cambridge, mass.
May 5, 1876.
My dear Clemens:
I have sent your invitation to Aldrich, and we ‸Howellses‸—if Mrs. Howells is well—will meet you at Parkers at 5 o’clock. I expect to be there anyway. Delighted to see you and Twichell.
I’m glad you had to pay for the box, for now I shall feel free to hiss.
Yours ever
W.D.H.
I didn’t ask A to the dinner.
