I've been a long while getting to your verses, but there were many
reasons--including a broken rib. They are pretty good verses, with
here and there _very_ good lines. I'd a strong temptation to steal one
or two for my "Passing Show," but I knew what an avalanche of verses
it would bring down upon me from other poets--as every mention of a
new book loads my mail with new books for a month.
If I ventured to advise you I should recommend to you the simple,
ordinary meters and forms native to our language.
I await the photograph of the pretty sister--don't fancy I've
forgotten.
It is 1 a. m. and I'm about to drink your health in a glass of
Riesling and eat it in a pate.
My love to Grizzly if you ever see him. Yours ever,