The cover for the July _Double Dealer_ gives me the shivers, but my Anderson article is all there. Write me what you think of it now that you have read him more or less completely. I enclose a letter of introduction [to Anderson]. My Pound article is a far more difficult thing and progresses slowly, but I am bent now on making as much money writing as I can, and I’m going to get it published one place or another. Your encouragement anent the John Brown adventure is very gratifying. This is a long winded matter, but I think I shall go ahead with it, hoping by the time you get back from Europe to have something to show you. By the way, when you are in Paris there is one place you must go. Joyce’s _Ulysses_ is to be brought out complete in Paris this fall. I enclose a subscription blank with address, etc. I have already subscribed for it. --/--/ 72: TO GORHAM MUNSON _Cleveland_ _July 22nd, ’21_ Dear Gorham: The “march of events” has brought upon me Cleveland’s 125th anniversary with all its fussy & futile inanities and advertisements to make hideous the streets. Blocked, and obliged to wait while the initial “pee-rade” went by today, I spent two hours of painful rumination ending with such disgust at America and everything in it, that I more than ever envy you your egress to foreign parts. No place but America could relish & applaud anything so stupid & drab as that parade--led by the most notable and richest grafter of the place decked out in Colonial rags as the founder of the city Moses C. Ah--the Baroness, lunatic that she is, is right. Our people have no _atom_ of a conception of beauty--and don’t want it. One thing almost brought tears to my eyes (and I hope you do not think me too silly in mentioning it)--the handful of Chinese who came along in some native and antique vestments & liveries to prostitute themselves in the medley of trash around them. To see them passing the (inevitable) Soldier’s Monument ablaze with their aristocratic barbarity of silk, gold and embroideries _was_ an anachronism that could occur _only_ in America. And the last of their “section” brought a float with a large “melting pot”--its significance was blazoned in letters _on_ it!! All I can say is--it’s a gay old world! If ever I felt alone it has been today. But I must encounter fireworks, bawling “choruses” and more “pee-rades” for 7 more days--as the community believes in celebrations that are productive of business.