Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] the grass lit up the gossamer threads like on a lake (the figure of speech is Howard’s, he told me this afternoon of seeing the same phenomenon last evening) / Monday when I expressed a determination to get reproductions of Thurburn’s illustrations to Poe’s stories on seeing some that Keller had showed, I did not suspect what it would lead to Tuesday he came to me with the same reproductions and gave them to me. The incident seems small - yet it is not.