“If the essences of things were in their mass and bulk we should not need the clairvoyance of Stieglitz’s photography to arrest them for examination and appreciation. But they are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy. Alfred Stieglitz can say to us today what William Blake said to as baffled a world more than a hundred years ago in his ‘To the Christians’: ‘I give you the end of a golden string: Only wind it into a ball,-- It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate, Built in Jerusalem’s wall.’” 143: TO CHARLOTTE RYCHTARIK [_New York City_] [_ca. May 7_] My dear Lotte: --/--/ R[ichard Rychtarik] wanted me to ask Frank about the privilege of translating some of the stories in _City Block_. I got an answer from Frank this morning, suggesting that Richard translate the book if I thought him able. Well,--translating is difficult, and especially Waldo Frank is hard to translate, I am sure. I think it would be fine if Richard went ahead with the stories. But before any are published I think it would be wise to try them out on some other people who do Czech trans. from _Czech into English_ and see how true the original style has been preserved. You are going to be angry with me for all this fuss, I am sure, but you see I have no way of judging how well Richard understands English as a literary language. I don’t want to misrepresent Richard to Frank either. Please let me know what you think of my plan. I shall send you back the copy of _City Block_ that R. brought. It is your copy _to keep_; Frank is going to send me another for myself. I am going over to the office of _The Dial_ now to leave Richard’s drawings, etc., for their consideration. We can’t expect to hear anything about them for two or three weeks. I’ll let you know as soon as I do. --/--/ 144: TO WILLIAM SOMMER _N. Y. C._ _May 9th, ’23_