I have reached such blind alleys and found no way out of them that there is nothing at present for me to do but laugh a little and _endure_--which I hope to do. --/--/ Did I tell you I’d been drawing and painting some? I find it a tremendous stimulation--and you begin to see so many more things than before wherever you look. My drawings are original, at least, and Sommer professes to see much in ’em. --/--/ 68: TO GORHAM MUNSON _Cleveland_ _June 16th ’21_ Hail! Citizen of the world! --/--/No work here except what I’ve lately been making myself. This has all been occasioned by a very cordial letter from the editor of _The Double-Dealer_, Basil Thompson, who urged me to write something for them on Anderson. This has been done (to the extent of 2000 words which, if taken, means $20.00) and dispatched. In my present mood it seems to have been a good job. Also, I got up courage and erudition enough to “do” a Vildrac translation for them which in the original at least is fine. I was very disappointed to find quite a bad typographical error in “Black Tambourine.” “Mingle” instead of “mingl_ing_”--last line 2nd verse. How foolish it makes me feel that way! It quite destroys the sense of the thing. They pay .30 per line of verse & 1 cent per prose word and want prose badly. As I need money worse, I may do something in the short story way for them if they fancy the Anderson thing. This last little effort has rewarded me much already merely in getting my mind to working a little again. I don’t dare hope for an ultimate success as a “free lance” but am beginning to think that this writing game offers a chance to augment one’s savings a little now and then at least. 69: TO GORHAM MUNSON [_Cleveland_] _Saturday midnight_ Dear Gorham: Well. It has been a day I shall not soon forget. I have just a little time since returned from my first visit to the Sommer farm and studio--about half way between here and Akron in a beautiful untrodden valley. He has an old old-fashioned schoolhouse for his studio--the walls are white and hung with such an array of things as you never have seen. Forgive my enthusiasm--I have been so dazzled for the last 8 hours that I may seem somewhat incoherent in my expression. I have brought home with me a considerable number of water-colours and drawings which I am going to send on to you within a few days. These are representative of his _best_ in this medium and I think you will be enthusiastic about them. I could picture a dozen N.Y. picture dealers in that studio today--radical or pedantical--all tearing [each] other’s hair for the first chance of exhibiting such stuff. I feel convinced now that all that needs be done is to get some samples of this work before them,--and if they have any sense at all--either artistic or commercial--they will seize upon it. --/--/ “Dynamism” is the splendid & fitting word for Sommer--the word I had been looking for and got only as far as the adjectival use. --/--/