Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence; Crane, Hart, 1899-1932. Correspondence
Dear Anderson: Your mention of a possible trip East soon makes me hope
very much that you will care to stop off at Cleveland here (a few hours
at least) and see me. I shall not be living at home at the time as my
mother expects to leave for her place in Cuba very soon, closing the
house, but if you come alone I can accommodate you at my room wherever
it may be. I want very much to talk with you and hope you can “make it”
this time. Better look me up at the factory at 208 St. Clair Ave. if you
arrive between 8 A.M. and 5 P.M. You don’t know how much I appreciate
the encouragement your letters give me. Although I am not at present
doing anything creatively, I have not sunk too much into despair or
indifference to hope.
Do come,--won’t you!
55: TO ----
[_Cleveland_] [_Dec. 22, 1920_]
Dear ----: NEWS! News! NEWS!--The “golden halo” has widened,--descended
upon me (or “us”) and I’ve been blind with happiness and beauty for the
last full week! Joking aside, I am too happy not to fear a great deal,
but I believe in, or have found God again. It seems vulgar to rush out
with my feelings to anyone so, but you know by this time whether I am
vulgar or not (I don’t) and it may please you, as it often might have
helped me so, to know that something beautiful can be found or can
“occur” once in awhile, and so unexpectedly. Not the brief and limited
sensual thing alone, but something infinitely more thrilling and
inclusive. I foolishly keep wondering,--“How can this be?--How did it
occur?” How my life might be changed could this continue, but I scarcely
dare to hope. I feel like weeping most of the time, and I have become
reconciled, strangely reconciled, to many aggravations. Of course it is
the return of devotion which astounds me so, and the real certainty
that, at least for the time, it is perfectly honest. It makes me feel
very unworthy,--and yet what pleasure the emotion under such
circumstances provides. I have so much now to reverence, discovering
more and more beauty every day,--beauty of character, manner, and body,
that I am for the time, completely changed.--But why aren’t you here to
talk with me about it! How I wish you were here.
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