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enlarged on the Aldingtons. Alfred said, "It is interesting to see how peo–
ple's impressions of other people differ. This is in confidence, but I have
had all sorts of trouble to get Richard Aldington to do anything for the
magazine. I wrote to him and he didn't answer the letter and then I wrote
to him again and got a very uncalled for disagreeable sort of letter that had
no justification so far as I could see. I replied and told
him
what I thought
and now things are straightened out and he's sent me something but I
asked him to tell the others, Flint and Fletcher and H.D. to send some
things and he has taken no notice of it." I said "Should you object to my
writing to them and telling them about you and the magazine not men–
tioning of course that fact that you had talked of them?" "Not at all," he
said. "I should be glad if you would. So I can do something for them pos–
sibly." After supper they showed me pictures, some photographs by Mr.
Stieglitz and [Edward] Steichen, of Shaw, Anatole France and others, that
Mr. Stieglitz had given them and some of the most superb pictures of snow
and engines and boats that I have ever seen. Alfred said "Are you fond of
Japanese prints? We have a hundred and one things to show you." (I amjust
waiting for you to see the pictures, old bird.) I asked if "Mrs.
K."
wrote
poetry and Alfred said music is our other bug. (Mrs.
K.
plays the piano and
he plays the mandolin.) She was wearing a blue crepe (turquoise blue)
dress short sleeves and small round, low neck and sewed on a curtain while
Alfred read a few things. She has brown hair and eyes and [the] loveliest
smile I ever have seen. To be continued. Don't you skip.
Weaz
Although Moore gives this letter a title, calling it "part II," it is actually the third
of
afour-letter sequence describing her trip. "Mrs. Gerrould" is Katherine Gerrould, an
American writer who taught at Bryn Mawr.
Sojourn in the Whale: part II
December 19, 1915
Dear Winks,
I was telling you about my passage of the Red Sea, or rather my expe–
rience in the whale. I had an extremely good time Wednesday night-the
night I took dinner with the Kreymborgs. Friday morning, I repaired to
the Daniel Gallery and saw an exhibition of things by William and
Marguerite Zorach, paintings and embroideries. As the
Times
says, the
embroideries "recall the great periods of embroidery" and the pictures
