Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

There it was. Someone else knew the very sound that had been puzzling me. It seems I do not know the simplest things! Will I ever learn to know birds + trees + plants any better than I do now. My Life is leading me further and further from it. Can I ever, sometime go back and learn anew? Perhaps. If not, I will at least always have with me a divine love of all nature which will be something.

Later on, we heard the shuddering mournful sound quite close.

                   Saturday Sept 6, l9l3

I am engrossed - indeed and I might say almost lurid In reading Jeffery Farnol’s “The Amateur Gentleman.” Thru reading his “The Money-moon” and “The Broad Highway” I am already familiar with his style and so when this book came into Louise’s possession as a loving remembrance of her birthday, I antici­pated a fine time when