You have no doubt wondered why I have behaved so strangely about the review for your _Study_. It is coming sometime. At present I have developed a chronic hesitation against it which must seem almost pathological. I am so enthused about it that I can’t seem to adopt a level-headed, conventionally-critical attitude about it. Also, the space for such considerations as I would [get?] into is too restricted in the Double-Skull to permit much more than either a screed, ineffective or broken, or mere jacket type of advertisement. I hope you won’t misinterpret my delay at any rate. As I said in my last note, the typography, paper, cover, photograph--everything in fact, is of the best taste and distinction. This book is bound to do you as much good as Frank. The latter is shown by Stieglitz’s picture to be an extremely mystic type. Don’t think me silly when I call the head and the eyes extremely beautiful. Frank has done me a world of good by his last letter (which promised another soon including further points on “F. & H.”) and, as I wrote him, now I feel I can walk calmly along the sidewalk whereas before I felt only defiance. He gripped the mystical content of the poem so thoroughly that I despair of ever finding a more satisfying enthusiast. And now to your question about passing the good word along. I discover that I have been all-too-easy all along in letting out announcements of my sexual predilections. Not that anything unpleasant has happened or is imminent. But it does put me into obligatory relations to a certain extent with “those who know,” and this irks me to think of sometimes. After all, when you’re dead it doesn’t matter, and this statement alone proves my immunity from any “shame” about it. But I find the ordinary business of earning a living entirely too stringent to want to add any prejudices against me _of that nature_ in the minds of any publicans and sinners. Such things have such a wholesale way of leaking out! Everyone knows now about B----, H---- and others--the list too long to bother with. I am all-too-free with my tongue and doubtless always shall be--but I’m going to ask you to advise and work me better with a more discreet behavior. --/--/ 139: TO CHARLOTTE AND RICHARD RYCHTARIK [_New York City_] _Sunday_ [_March_] Dear Lotte and Richard: --/--/ I am quite happy. A long walk this afternoon in salt air and clear sunlight. Everyone carrying canes and wearing bright clothes. Lunch tomorrow with Waldo Frank. Munson is enthusiastic about my staying with them. They have a fresh and charming apartment with room enough for me, so everything is FINE. I sat a long while thinking about how beautiful you both were when I left you last night. Yes,--of course, Life is very beautiful when there are such people to meet and love as I love you both. Be very happy. Along with me. I never felt better before. 140: TO WALDO FRANK [_New York City_] _Easter_