Here is the bit of blank. When are we to see the book? Needless
question--when you can spare the money to pay for publication, I
suppose, if by that time you are ambitious to achieve public
inattention. That's my notion of encouragement--I like to cheer up the
young author as he sets his face toward "the peaks of song."
Say, that photograph of the pretty sister--the one with a downward
slope of the eyes--is all faded out. That is a real misfortune: it
reduces the sum of human happiness hereabout. Can't you have one done
in fast colors and let me have it? The other is all right, but that is
not the one that I like the better for my wall. Sincerely yours,