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

Cue: "We did have"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified:

Revision History: Larson, Brian

Published on MTPO: 2012

Print Publication:

MTPDocEd
To William Dean Howells
26 March 1885 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: MH-H, UCCL 03197)
March 26∕85.
My Dear Howells—

We did have a most noble good time in Boston, & are as right–down grateful to you & Mrs Howells for it as anybody in the world could be.

I enclose an enclosure. Won’t you be so good as to read it, & riddle it & scarify it with expungings & other emendations, & get it right & the way it ought to be, against the possible accident of it’sⒶemendation getting into print, & then remail it to me straight off? I don’t know any of thisat Club, but I was blamed glad to get this honorary membership just at this time.

Yrs Ever
Mark.

I am & madam are clear behind with Silas Lapham, but Clara Spaulding is booming with it— overflowing with applauses, especially of this the Lampham dinner.


enclosure: see the 26, 27, and 28 March draft to Frank A. Nicholsclick to open link
Textual Commentary
Source text(s):

MS, in pencil, MH-H. The enclosure is transcribed as a separate letter.

Previous Publication:

MTHL, 2:524–25; MicroML, reel 5.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ it’s ● the placement of the apostrophe in the MS is ambiguous and could be read as either before or after the ‘s’; we choose ‘it’s’ here because it was used as a possessive form in the nineteenth century
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