13 December 1874 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NN-B, UCCL 02481)
I want you to ask Mrs Howells to let you stay all night at the Parker House & tell lies & have an improving time, & take breakfast with me in the morning. I will have a good room for you, & a fire. Can’t you tell her it always makes you sick to go home late at night, or something like that? That sort of thing rouses Mrs Clemens’s sympathises, easily; the only trouble is to keep them up. Twichell & I talked till 2 or 3 in the morning, the night we suppedⒶemendation at your house,1explanatory note & it restored his health on account of his being drooping for some time & made him much more robuster than what he was before. Will Mrs. Howells let you?2explanatory note
On 13 November (see 14 Nov 74 to OLC, n. 1click to open letter).
She did (see pp. 317–20).
MS, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (NN-B).
L6 , 315; Paine 1912, 250, excerpt; MTB , 1:536, excerpt; MTL , 1:239; MTHL , 1:53–54.
see Howells Letters in Description of Provenance.