MARK TWAIN

Murray Hill Hotel, New York March 14, 1888. I came
down here from Hartford, Saturday the loth, to dinner to
Henry Irving, at Chas. A. Dana's, Sunday evening, and
the memorable blizzard has snow-bound me here ever
since. Not a train here from Hartford since early Monday
morning. Mrs. Clemens was to come down today and we
were going to Washington tomorrow. Of course she will
not come till everything is smooth again. I can't get a
telegram nor a telephone to her, nor she a message to me.
A Boston friend is better off: He cabled Boston through
London and got an answer back promptly over the same
long road.

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