24 January 1877 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence cards: CtY-BR and NIC, UCCL 01403)
(SUPERSEDED)
Good—we shall look for you 31st. I think I told you I was a sort of father to our Young Girls’ Club here & asked you to give them an hour’s talk, or read one or tw of your poems to them in my house some time. They re are charming lasses of 16 to 20 yrs. old. They number something over a dozen. Boyesen, Harte, Fields, Warner, & I have talked to them, & Howells & Hawley have promised. Can you stay over & entertain them Saturday morning? Or Friday morning if you can’t spare so much time? Your N.Y. train doesn’t leave here till afternoon. I hope you can & will.
P. S. I meant, could you talk to the girls the next morning after your lecture of the 31st, in case you wouldn’t have time to stay till Saturday. I could gather the girls together as well on Thursday as on Saturday. When I mentioned Friday I was thinking that that would be the day following your lecture.
Joline 1913, 263–65, partial publication.
The Morse Collection was donated to CtY in 1942 by Walter F. Frear.