Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
A Roaming Letter.

BARBIzoN, April =, IS.
Dear F: Here again in this old
town on the borders of Fontainebleau Forest,
resting my weary bones and absorbing cafe
aux lait by the quart. Your unlucky brother
has become professional invalid, and wishes
he were home with his old California home
comforts and old faces. am getting tired
of everybody here. You know siRce B
and T left [ have no very solid friends.
1t seems as though the Latin Quarter were
becoming more and more dismal every day,
and in spite of glory and other allurements,
things are getting very dismaying.
look forward to Carlsbad, with
the queer little Bohemian girl. with
some relief. L shall make a profile of her
and send it to you But that is far off At
present am III a large dining-room writing
this, surrounded by q crowd of artists who
cannot work, for it is raining horribly. A
crazy Frenchman is now telling story
about some bedtug experiences in Algeria.
| tel California stories with great effect, for
they believe everything, and | seldom say
anything that ought to be believed.
May 2d-We went on an expedition to
FonIaine 6eau. a few miles walk through the
forest. This is a hard place to write in !;
everybody wants you to go somewhere or do
something, SO that letters are liable to be dis
jointed.
AN ARTISTS DETERMINATION.
Two days after. Been laid up some, 50 l
won't postpone this letter again, but send it
off without losing any more time about it.
[ hear your eyes are weak. | hope to hear
BIS operations are successful on them. 1
suppose you won't be able to write you are
glad of an excuse anyway, for you have
promised so many things in your letters
lately that you are having a hard time to
keep your memory in order. l forgive you
write when you feel like it. Nobody can
write anything worth writing unless they
happen to be in the humor. II you happen
to be in good humor some evening, sit down
and rattle off something to me-or if you feel
blue-say your six Apollos have not called
as usual, for instance, or the lawyer S speeches
are bores, and he has a bad case = or
is a bad case let out your feelings
in letter, and tell me how they
bother you, or please you, and your
views on life at that period-or a condensed
account of male men lovers, and the habits
of these funny animals; and write more about
yourself; don't think that will suppose you
are conceited, or any such foolishness. Talk
all about what you expect to do-what you
would like to do. Tell me what would please
you most to do or TO be. Perhaps l may be
able to help you some day. l am trying
hard now and you can depend on me-couot
on me some Have little faith in me to
help you. II l can do nothing now, will
be able to help you some day not far
off. A little time and patience am
getting on well now, and do not need very
long time before l can work for you and
mother. Never forget that my sole aim and
end at present is to work for you and Nj
and A., and make them comfortable.
This is what l expect to do. and if trying
with all my might will succeed depend on
brother Els fingers being worn down to
stumps before he gives up. 1t is the most
serious thought of my life, and 1 am not
fooling one word. l am in earnest, and when
my time comes for sailing into the ideas that
L am always thinking over, something will
come of it or 1 have worked in vain. They
shall hear of me yet. My time will come.
Give me little while / have hoe to hoe
my way with-a little while yet