butts on his fly. They started
on a cruise for Cherbourg; but
I believe they never got there
but spent the summer in the
basin at Havre.

Do you remember Jack
Riso? He has married a widow
without money, & in spite of
violent family remonstrances. Did
not think it was in him did
you. Said him at the ice welle
his children the other day. 3
strapping daughters ranging in
age from 20 to 25.

What are you doing at?
Writing any more stories at £50.
a force with a moral. I am working
slowly and ill at what you thought
might make a bookie: the harder
I think the more muddled I get

the worse I complicate. I am hammering
out painfully the last monologue of
what will make a little volume
when done called say "monologues on
conduct" in the parts viz why be moral
what is right? - But each is the
bad men of my style that so far
they are really only notes in a logical
rather than a chronological order"
(vide the preface which you love).
Morals being platitudes. One can't
help backing over the traces &
being very fying.

Blombed was at age with
most of the summer. He returned
penniles to Landm & defrayed. I
said him there elate and almost
impossible in a new top coat. A dealer
was going to look at some of his
pictures so he had rented a well
studio, but new clothes and was
as gay as if he had actually sold
a picture for ten pounds.

the modern application of the
dictum was - sales. He must have
meant blue ribbons, kitchen chairs,
and parched peas. Epicurus cant
have been a golfer. No man could
drive a ball on parched peas.

"This is a sober letter. There
is mightily little in it that is there not.

To write well, you need a pen.
A man must have a man's pen.
And a gush of drunkenness.

The gush of drunkenness is the
clearness of sobriety, therefore, dreams
recounted are false. They lack the
flash but have the mindless of
drunkens obfuscation.

N.B. written after
what he says
here p.5. also the
note at p.2

Portrait by Bloomer on the wall.

Remarkable work by Bloomer.

Round the corner by Bloomer.

Good news, but very sad news.

Thanks to your help. January 15th.

But a brown nacelle.

It can soon come to London
a wish to communicate.

Sam Gouw

W. Pannen Essig

25 Kirchen Road

Castle Hill

Caling London