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After I saw you on Friday one hundred things came down upon me, so that I
could not even get a little note off
to the boat3. But my thoughts went with you a long way out to sea.
I wanted to thank you for the verse you sent me, especially for the resume
at the end—the seven lines 2 which gather the
uncertainty up unto into something definite.
The French poets rather overdo the interrogative forms, so beware of them a
little. Questions do create a mood, but always a subjective mood. And out of questions I like some answer should
come, as in your seven concluding lines. Doubts are never so appealing (to
me) as one bright image, or even one grave image, such as you made in
the verses about the mountain cross which you gave Edith4.
I’ve not been out for a single walk, dear! Not one! The weather has been one
f long rain—no sun. So I have been
working at my desk. The weather in my new
story5 is more agreeable than that outside.
Please tell Yehudi6 that I had a plump orange from his little tree for lunch yesterday. It had grown so heavy the branch was breaking. It was fresh and very juicy (not at all dry or pithy) but sour, Oh SOUR!! A lemon was but a sugar-plum compared to it!
In haste to catch the fast boat, dear.
Your loving Aunt WillaAll the fast boats are on "cruises" now!
For Yaltah1