1? April 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, damage emended: TxU-Hu, UCCL 01777)
Now, Master Wattie, I offer you the pipe of peace, in the form of this autograph of the most finished writer of English that lives.—& he is the loveliest man that lives, too. Howells won’t mind it, for you are a discreet boy & don’t let people’s private stuff get into print.
half a page torn away, removing an unknown amount of text
editorial office of the atlantic monthly.
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47 franklin street, boston.
Thanks for your Club contribution. It’s good, and perfectly true; but you wont be allowed to get your adverbs wrong in this magazine.—John is reading Tom Sawyer, and cheers and yells over it like a illegible about as I might. canceled by SLC
Another boy on the road to destruction,Ⓐemendation you see. S. L. C.
MS, damage emended, TxU-Hu.
Covici 1960, 109–10; MicroPUL, reel 1.
As of 1960, the letters to Bowser were “in the possession of Bowser’s niece, Mrs. E. C. Stradley” and destined “for eventual deposit in the manuscript archives” at TxU (Covici 1960, 105).