Dear Gorham: My terrible hay fever days are over, and the fine autumn weather that I like the best of the year has arrived to console me. My mood is neither happy nor desperately sad. It will best be conveyed to you by the quotation of a new poem, “Chaplinesque”--only started (if I can help it) as yet: --/--/[15] And I must tell you that my greatest dramatic treat since seeing Garden in _The Love of Three Kings_ two winters ago, was recently enjoyed when Charlie Chaplin’s _The Kid_ was shown here. Comedy, I may say, has never reached a higher level in this country before. We have (I cannot be too sure of this for my own satisfaction) in Chaplin a dramatic genius that truly approaches the fabulous sort. I could write pages on the overtones and brilliant subtleties of this picture, for which nobody but Chaplin can be responsible, as he wrote it, directed it,--and I am quite sure had much to do with the settings which are unusually fine. If you have not already seen it in N. Y., it may now be in Paris. It was a year late in arriving in Cleveland, I understand, on account of objections from the state board of censors!!!! What they could have possibly objected to, I cannot imagine. It must have been some superstition aroused against good acting! But they will always release any sickening and false melodrama of high life and sex, lost virginities, etc., at the first glance. Well, I am thankful to get even what their paws have mauled of the Chaplin and _Caligari_ sort. My poem is a sympathetic attempt to put in words some of the Chaplin pantomime, so beautiful, and so full of eloquence, and so modern. --/--/ It will be time for me to raise my voice in praise of Anderson soon, as his new book _The Triumph of the Egg_, and other stories, is on the market. This also includes the serial “Out of Nowhere into Nothing,” recently completed in _The Dial_. I would lay a bet on it that long after Zona Gale, Lewis, etc., are forgotten, Sherwood will hold his own. There are lots of things I want to read but haven’t the money to buy, like Hecht’s first novel, a great success they say, _Erik Dorn_, recently out. I wrote you how much I enjoyed Shaw’s _Back to Methuselah_, a review of which I wrote for _The D.D._ I am taking a course in advertising two nights of every week until next May which is very good and ought to help me get started. It has the advantage, at any rate, of giving one a diploma which, I understand, has a real value. I am now pretty sure of making advertising my real route to bread and butter, and have a strong notion that as a copy writer I will eventually make a “whiz.” --/--/ 77: TO GORHAM MUNSON _Cleveland_, _Oct. 6th, ’21_