Apr. 9, 1924
     I bought Dvorak’s Quintet in F Major* the other day – It is supposed to be based onAmericanaand Negro folk songs.  The Scherzo makes me think of queer little houses or stores inSouth Carolinaat the edge of some town – One looks out over the barren sky to the southwest at evening time.  It has a plaintive sadness about it that fills me with a sort of sweet melancholy and calls up memories of early childhood days that are gone forever –
     I think of Dvorak as a sincere fine artist expressing the desires** of a whole people.
     * (American”) ** or feelings