Thank you for the pictures of the Sloots fire-place and "Joe Gans." I
can fancy myself cooking a steak in the one, and the other eating one
better cooked.
I'm glad I've given you the Grand Canyon fever, for I hope to revisit
the place next summer, and perhaps our Yosemite bunch can meet me
there. My outing this season will be in Broadway in little old New
York. That is not as good as Monte Sano, but the best that I can do.
You must have had a good time with the Sterlings, and doubtless you
all suffered from overfeeding.
Carlt's action in denuding the shaggy pelt of his hands meets with my
highest commendation, but you'd better look out. It may mean that he
has a girl--a Jewess descended from Jacob, with an hereditary
antipathy to anything like Esau. Carlt was an Esaurian.
You'll have to overlook some bad errors in Vol. V of the C. W. I did
not have the page proofs. Some of the verses are unintelligible.
That's the penalty for philandering in California instead of sticking
to my work.
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Affectionately,
AMBROSE.
[Washington, D. C.,
April 28, 1911.]