To Robert M. Howland
29 December 1879 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS, correspondence card: CU-MARK, UCCL 04128)

Monday Night.

Dear Bob—If your engagements are such that you can come in the early part of next week, that will be a little better, because Mrs. Clemens, who has been ailing for some days, succumbed this afternoon [MS page 2] & took to her bed; but if th your plans do not leave you free to change, come Thursday as proposed—& be sure to do, it, my boy, for I can have a chat with you, if Mrs. C. can’t. Mind, you are to come, sure—I only propose the later day in the hope of giving Mrs. C. a chance to have a share of the visit with us.

Ys Ever

Sam.