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Source: University of Cambridge, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, England ([UkCU])

Cue: "Mrs. Clemens & I go to"

Source format: "MS"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

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Revision History: AB 2009-03-11

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v6

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To Richard M. Milnes (Lord Houghton)
29 October 1875 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: UkCU, UCCL 11622)

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Hartford Oct. 29
My Lord:

Mrs. Clemens & I go to Boston today to visit until Nov. 1st, but I shall gladly run down to New York & breakfast with you the next day.1explanatory note

Yours s Sincerely
Samℓ. L. Clemens.
Textual Commentary
29 October 1875 • To Richard M. Milnes (Lord Houghton) • Hartford, Conn. • UCCL 11622
Source text(s):

MS, Houghton Papers, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge University (UkCU). Published courtesy of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College.

Previous Publication:

L6 , 579.

Provenance:

The Houghton Papers were donated by the widow of the second Marquess of Crewe in 1959.

More information on provenance may be found in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.

Explanatory Notes
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Clemens answered the following invitation (CU-MARK):

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Brevoort House.

Oct 27’.

Dear Mr Clemens,

I leave N.Y. on Wedy inst. If by chance you are in town, will you kindly breakfast with me on Tuesy the 2d at 9.30.

I am ys resy
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The occasion was the breakfast “to literary men” that Houghton gave “in one of the parlours up-stairs” at the Brevoort House. No guests other than Clemens have been identified. Houghton left for Philadelphia on Wednesday, 3 November (T. Wemyss Reid, 2:324).

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