Jan. 18/84.
My Dear Howells—
This is admirable, & we must do it into a play, yet. I return it, lest I lose it.
Raymond still biting. Shall hear more, very soon.
Stu Charley W. stupidly forgot I told him to contract for the scissors. He will now attend to it.
Please do remember this: Mrs. Lilly ‸George‸ Warner grasped some door-knobs while her hands were greasy with Vasiline. When she came to fumigate, after scarlet fever, all others metals were destroyed, but those knobs were not affected. This knowledge could have saved us three or four hundred dollars if we had had it when we fumigated.
How is are John & Mrs Howells?
In haste
Mark
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MTHL, 2:464.
Provenance:
see Howells letters in Description of Provenance.
