16 February 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01909)
There is a good hotel at Lenox—good in summer and no doubt in winter. Mr Richard Goodman of Lenox could tell you of its accommodations. There is a club, ̭also̭ and billiards ̭arḙin that place.
I doubt if Ward can go up this week. His promise was for some indefinite Sunday. I write him a note at once.
I am deep in Capt John Smith, who holds me faster than the Indians did him.
Just this minute going to take journey for Brooklyn to talk tonight to the Young Men of Dr Storr’s church—circled by SLC: same such lecture humbug as Joe gets up in his. Love to Livy.
Dear Joe—All right, I’ll do your lecture-humbug for you the 25th. Keep it quiet, you know; no printer’s ink. The way we did it before was right.
(inⒶemendation dreadful haste—just leaving for New York——both of us—couple of days.—
I told Howells [to]
send you the pen
—did ◊ he?
Please return this letter of Charley’s to me.
MS, CU-MARK.
MicroPUL, reel 2.
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