have got to be here a week or so longer, and I should like to live with it a few days more before returning it. The compelling quality of the whole work is so great that it is difficult for me to rely on any critical facility at this writing. I do not wonder your doctor friend was as enthusiastic as he sounds. I could not say that I would join him in his exchange, for all three of the pictures he mentions have excellencies and qualities which have endeared them unto me, and I am afraid I have loyalties to old friends, but certainly this picture is a knock-out.
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     “And now we come to the water-color, over which we one and all executed a sheer dance of delight. You cannot treat the “Elevators” that way, it just won’t let you --- but the water-color walked right bang into all our hearts. It’s a pippin, Charlie, and so like you in every inch of it, that I almost feel as tho I had had a visit.
     “More, when I catch my breath, for I am still a little too excited to write calmly,
     As ever
     Frank-“
     Which means more to me than any “certificate of merit” that I ever received.
     In the same mail, a letter from Chidsey, asking me