Munson said that he had a fine letter from you, and he has probably answered it by this time, telling you a number of things about his present position with regard to _Broom_ and _Secession_. He is the noblest young man I know in this country. Experience seems only to sharpen a native integrity and an almost clairvoyant sense of spiritual values. He was obliged to leave the city for his health, and while I miss him a great deal, I hope that he will remain where he is for the rest of the winter. Waldo [Frank], as you know, leaves for Europe tomorrow. I am sorry that he couldn’t get time to make you that visit. I have seen him going through a good deal, both in work and experience, and there is no use of trying to write out any details of these things. We shall talk about it some time. Margaret [Naumburg] has also meant a great deal to me lately. Isn’t this little handful of us fighting though?! 161: TO GORHAM MUNSON [_New York City_] _Oct. 28th, ’23_ Cheero, Old bird! I have just seen the “last” _Secession_! and I am in no position, I must admit, to quarrel with you about your decision to destroy the garbled pages of “Faustus and Helen.” A beautiful bit of business--“blues in your breasts,” and the two lines that our hero decided were inessential to the poem! That damned note at the end with its ill-advised quotation from your personal comment is still worse. But never mind, I don’t care at all if you will make the necessary clipping. Some few friends of W[heelwright]’s have probably already received copies to treasure as their vision may permit, but I should like to keep as many people in America free from misconceptions about me as possible. Why don’t you wire the consulate in Florence to stop W. from any further rape of _S._--it is a positive elopement that seems to have no prospect of termination. I am thinking of starting abroad with _The Dial_, calling it “The Pile,” hemorrhoid, or something like that! My cable, of course, failed.