My boy, you ought to have been here tonight to see Susie & Clara & a dozen of the neighbors’ children play half a dozen stirring scenes from the Prince & the Pauper—one of the prettiest private thatrical perfermoncesⒶemendation I have ever seen. Audience of 25 neighbors. Mrs. Clemens has been drilling these kids 3 or 4 weeks in their parts, & to-night the thing was sprung on me as a surprise. When it is repeated, you must run up & see it.

If you put “The Tragic Tale of a Fishwife” in next Saturday’s program, please put “By request” after it. You know I have read it in New York before.

I shall come down next Friday, arriving at 6. Would like a room reserved for me. Shall stay over Sunday.