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I am so glad the portrait3 has reached you safely, and that you are at least moderately well pleased with it. It is not an absolutely satisfactory likeness, I think - - but that is neither my fault nor Bakst's4. We both worked awfully hard. Certainly, it would be most kind of Mr. Neihardt5 to make the presentation address.
I wonder whether Bakst will have come up enough in his English to be
conversational on his tour. He reads his lectures in English, and I have
heard that he does it splendidly, but conversation is another matter. He
missed a great opportunity in not letting me speak English to him last
summer.! He could have learned a lot, and life would have
been much easier for me if he had let me speak to him in English. This, of
course, is confidential; and everything I say about Bakst is confidential. I
don't want to be quoted about him in your vehement newspapers -- and you and
I both know too well who6 would
misquote me!
No indeed, I'm not a bit tired of seeing your hand-writing. Can't we find something to correspond about when this is over? For one thing, please send me what your papers say about Bakst's lecture.
A merry, merry Christmas to you, and a happy New Year! I keep thinking about all the bottles of Champagne that are lying in my private corner of the wine cellar at Ville D'Avray7. I did my best this summer, however.
Yours W. S. C. Mr. Duncan M. Vinsonhaler,1 First National Bank Building, Omaha,8 Nebraska. NEW YORK.N.Y.STA.C2 DEC 19 1923 1030 PM