14 July 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: ViU, UCCL 01250)
I am sorry to have been away when w you called.2explanatory note We shall arrive at Mr. Bateman’s (Bateman’s Point, Newport) July 31st, & shall hope to see you then.3explanatory note
Waring (1833–98), of Newport, Rhode Island, was a Union Civil War veteran, agriculturalist, and sanitary engineer who wrote for the Atlantic Monthly on horses, military life, and fox hunting, as well as his professional specialties. His next Atlantic contribution, “The Sanitary Drainage of Houses and Towns,” ran from September through November 1875. He also wrote for Scribner’s Monthly, and issued a collection of sketches, Whip and Spur, through James R. Osgood in 1875.
Although Waring had attended the Atlantic contributors’ dinner on 15 December 1874, he might not have met Clemens then. Howells’s letter of 19 July seems to introduce him to Clemens for the first time (13 July 75 to Howells, n. 5click to open link). Doubtless he had called at Howells’s suggestion.
See pp. 521–23.
MS, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (ViU).
L6 , 512–513.
deposited at ViU by Clifton Waller Barrett on 17 December 1963.
More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.