Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass ([MH-H])

Cue: "I am needed"

Source format: "MS, correspondence card, in pencil"

Letter type: "correspondence card"

Notes:

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To William Dean Howells
27 April 1877 • Baltimore, Md. (MS, correspondence card, in pencil: MH-H, UCCL 01419)
Baltimore, Apl. 27 (On the stage of
Ford’s Theatre, 11 in the morning.

I am needed every moment during these daily rehearsals, but I must steal a second to wish you were here at this instant. There’s a combat going on, of the most furious & earnest nature, between two men in every-day clothes, who rave & roar & fell each other with imaginary chairs & shoot each other with imaginary pistols & pretend to fall & die in agony & be thrown into the Stanislaus river———& by George all the other actors & actresses sit within 6 feet of them & calmly converse about the reasonable price of board in Baltimore!

Ys Ever
Mark.
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, correspondence card, in pencil, MH-H, shelf mark bMS Am 1784 (98).

Previous Publication:

MTHL , 1:175.

Provenance:

See Howells Letters in Description of Provenanceclick to open letter.

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