To William Dean Howells
17 November 1874 • Hartford, Conn.
(MS: MH-H, UCCL 01154)

Home, Nov. 17.

My Dear Howells:

We must apologize again for our shameless delay in getting out to lunch. If Mrs. Howells will forgive & forget, we will always be strictly on time henceforth.1

Mrs. Clemens gets upon the verge of swearing & goes tearing around in an unseemly fury when I enlarge upon the delightful time we had in Boston & she not there to have her share. I think she will ‸be‸ mighty sure to be along when we go again. I have tried hard to reproduce Mrs. Howells to her, & have probably not made a shining success of it. Jo & I had so much to talk about that the train got here before we were expecting that event.

With the kindest regards to all the Howells household,

Ys Ever

Mark.

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1 See the previous letter, n. 3.

Description of Texts and Provenance

Source text(s):

MS, Houghton Library, Harvard University (MH-H, shelf mark bMS Am 1784 [98]).

Previous publication: L6, 285–286; MTB, 1:530, excerpt; MTHL, 1:41.

Provenance:see Howells Letters in Description of Provenance.