My Dear Howells:
The play is enchanting. I laughed & cried all the way through it. The dialogue is intolerably brilliant; one ha‸dn’t‸ nd time to see where one ◇ lightning-burst struck before another followed. I cannot remember when I have spent so delightful an evening in a theatre. Ah, if I only had my old fool of a detective mooning & meddling along through a play like that, once, his fame & fortune would be made. My wife, & Lily & Charley Warner enjoyed the piece as heartily & unreservedly as I did.
Love to you all.
Ys Ever
S. L. C.
Dear me, Winine Winnie didn’t put her name in our Visitor’s Register! That Ask her to send it to me on a slip of paper, so that I can paste it in.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MTHL, 1:216.
Provenance:See Howells Letters in Description of Provenance.
Emendations and textual notes:
Dec • Dec [‘c’ partly formed]
