4 January 1878 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 01522)
The play is enchanting. I laughed & cried all the way through it. The dialogue is intolerably brilliant; one hadn’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.
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.
MS, MH-H, shelf mark bMS Am 1784 (98).
MTHL , 1:216.
See Howells Letters in Description of Provenanceclick to open letter.