Ten Gramercy Park New York, N.Y.

December 13 1920

My Dear Miss Traubel:

Please excuse my delay in answering your letter. I suppose there is no excuse for me to try to explain myself to you so I wont try very hard. You will understand me anyway. I will not speak at the dinner simply because I hate dinner speech making, and I do not expect to come to the dinner for very much the same reason. I shall not forget what Horace Traubel has been to me, and I shall often speak of him at times and places and to certain people with no other purpose than the pleasure I will have in recalling something which is beautiful. I have no inclination to fall into ranks and march to a certain place, on a certain day of the year and there to think and feel in a certain way --- Disorders arise from this kind of orderliness. Still, we are not all built in the same way. Some will say I'm unsocially built. Well anyway while you are dining my absence wont make me any the less aware of what beauty there was, and) promise in the gifts of Horace Traubel, how useful and kind he was to me and ever will be.