WILLIAM MEADE PRINCE
WESTPORT
CONNECTICUT

January 14th, 1929

Dear Mr. Benet:

I feel very apologetic about not answering
your letter; but several weeks ago I went down with Bron-
chial Pneumonia, and have only recently gotten myself, and
things, in shape again. Therefore, I hasten to write you
something of my appreciation of and thanks for your letter.
It was more than good of you, - and my enjoyment of it is,
I think, about the next best thing to actually illustrating
John Brown's Body.

Of course, there is small chance that I will ever
have that opportunity; but at least I'd like you to know
how much I'd like to do it! I am beginning to do more
illustrating now, - have just started in with Mr. Hearst's
Cosmopolitan, - and I hope that in the event Doubleday Doran
ever plan an illustrated edition of John Brown they'll give
me a shot at it.

I am looking forward to seeing you in the spring.
we are moving in this week, for the winter, - and until
May I'll be at 25 Fifth Avenue, -(Stuyvesant 2992) *-
studio at 25 East Eleventh, - and on occasion I'll be around
The Players. Wont you have lunch with me some day when you
get back? I'd like tremendously to talk with you, and I hope
you will find time for it.

My sincere and hearty thanks again for your letter.
I wish this slight acquaintance with you was of longer stand-
ing; I spent a large part of last winter in a studio on the
Kue de Lambre in Paris.

with all best wishes,

Stephen Vincent Benet, Esq.,
36 Rue de Longchamp,
Neuilly sur Seine