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

Cue: "Receive a lesson"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: AB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To William Dean Howells
28 October 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 01848)
Dear Howells—

Receive a lesson. This is a plan which I have used to for many years to get the advantage of a bad memory. I keep the hieroglyphics in my pocket, but I don’t have to refer to them.

Mark.
canceled with three vertical rules:

Pratt & Whitney.

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They ve raised these rivers here with their tears—joyful

tears—& dissipated the malaria


on the verso, canceled with three vertical rules:

As this is the

As As I have long ago sworn off from lecturing & other forms of lying., I seriously thought, for a time, of making enlarging the reform complete by going ascending into the pulpit or some other middle ground between fact & fiction


ascending as far as the truth pulpit toward the remote heights of the the truth; but finally resolved to make the reform complete by climbing on, clear


enclosure of three pages: page 1 shows drawings of an eye, wash tub and board, running man, house labeled “Poor house”, and other images and words; page 2 shows drawings of an angel, a church steeple, smoke, a man labeled “tramp”, and other images and words
page 3:

ENGLAND

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He forgives you & we forgive you—all &

everything—& you shall have yr W T. which

you urge upon us—

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My 3 pages of hieroglyphic notes, memorized

to keep a memorized speech straight in my

head—delivered Oct. 26/80 in Hartford.

Mark
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

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

Previous Publication:

MTHL , 1:334.

Provenance:

See Howells Letters in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

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