The gnome's name is "Jekyll & Hyde"; I believe you will find he is
likewise quite willing to answer to the name of Low or Stevenson.
Jan. 2nd, '86.
P.S. I have copied out on the other sheet some bad verses, which somehow
your picture suggested; as a kind of image of things that I pursue and
cannot reach, and that you seem—no, not to have reached—but to have
come a thought nearer to than I. This is the life we have chosen; well,
the choice was mad, but I should make it again.
What occurs to me is this: perhaps they might be printed in (say) the
_Century_ for the sake of my name; and if that were possible, they might
advertise your book. It might be headed as sent in acknowledgment of
your _Lamia_. Or perhaps it might be introduced by the phrases I have
marked above. I daresay they would stick it in: I want no payment, being
well paid by _Lamia_. If they are not, keep them to yourself.