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I said4 legend, didn't I, not folk-lore?
There's such a difference. Folk-lore is unarticulated—detached. But legend is a sort
of interpretation of life by Faith. It was that background of order and discipline
that made
gave the lives of those missionaries5 proportion and measure measure and accent, like a work of art.
Yes,6 of course you may use anything I
said, provided that
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR
200 GUESTS
The Shattuck Inn
Annex
ALL MODERN
CONVEINENCES
AT THE FOOT OF THE MONADNOCK MOUNTAIN
JAFFREY, N.H.
AMERICAN PLAN
OPEN ALL OF THE YEAR it
doesn't sound as if I were defending the book.
I'm so sorry you tired and used up—I'm a wreck myself, trying to get rested enough to start for Arizona7. Of course I'll let you know when I go through Chicago8. Rush your Archbishop9 for autograph along to me here2—you can have it bound afterward. I'm not likely to have an address for some months. Awful way to live!
ACCOMMODATIONS FORYou did nobly10 by me in your review11—but sometime, in the country, you must run
over that book just the way you read the
"Swiss Family Robinson"12 when you were little, not as
writing at all, but sort of living along with the priests and their mules in a world
where miracles really come into the day's work, or into one's experience of it,
which is the same thing.