To Charles Warren Stoddard
22 October 1877 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card: CU-MARK, UCCL 01490)

Monday, P.M.

slcDear Charley: My wife has plunged me into an abyss of genuine remorse, by saying, “What! didn’t you go to the station with Mr. Stoddard?” I said, “You know I only go when there are ladies, or when the gentlemen do not know the way.” “She said, “But this is such a dismal day. It is so forlorn [MS page 2] to send anybody away alone.” I realized it in an instant & I have felt like a brute ever since—but I do assure you my conduct was innocent & only heedless—but it was hellish, nevertheless.1 Now you promise me to come again & give me one more chance. Will you?

Yrs Ever

Mark.

We all thoroughly enjoyed your visit, my boy—all the tribe of us.