Sir: In your issue of the 23d, occurs a paragraph to the effect that “Mark Twain Ⓐemendation is reported to be at present engaged in writing a work on English manners & customs.”2explanatory note It is a mistake. Some day, but not just at present, I hope to write a book about England, but it will hardly bear so broad a title as the one suggested above. In such a book as that, I could not leave out the manners & customs which obtain in an English gentleman’s household without leaving out the most interesting feature of the subject;. They are the next thing to perfection; admirable; yet I would shrink from deliberately describing them in a book, for I w fear that such a course would be, after all, a violation of the liberal courteous hospitality which furnished me the means of doing it. There may be no serious indelicacy about eating a gentleman’s bread & then printing an appreciative & complimentary account of the ways Ⓐemendation of his family, but still it is a thing which one naturally dislikes to do.