Mch 15.
My Dear Howells:
If you print this will you see that simultane-sheets go to the Canadian Monthly & to Chatto & Windus 74 Piccadilly, London: That is, if I’m out of the country by that time.
I’m going to be away out in Elmira, 300 miles from N. Y when the Taylor banquet comes off, so I shall have to decline, I suppose.
I was determined to have one more look at you‸, in Boston,‸ before we go, but I’ve just been 2 days in New York & Livy had no sleep while I was gone. I dasn’t rob her of another nights rest, for she has to be on her feet & hard at work from now till we leave, 26th. The drawing- & pink rooms have a melancholy look, to-day—uncarpeted & wholly stripped & empty. This work of desolation is to go right on, day after day.
I am called—Good-bye, for today!
Yrs Ever
Mark.
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MTHL, 1:222–23.
Provenance:See Howells Letters in Description of Provenance.
