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Source: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass ([MH-H])

Cue: "The play is"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: #N/A

Print Publication:

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To William Dean Howells
4 January 1878 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 01522)
Dec Jan. 4.Ⓐemendation
My Dear Howells:

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.

Ys Ever
S. L. C.

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.

Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, MH-H, shelf mark bMS Am 1784 (98).

Previous Publication:

MTHL , 1:216.

Provenance:

See Howells Letters in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  Dec  ●  Dec ‘c’ partly formed
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