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a hat, that the Whitalls had two houses one in town and one in the coun–
try and that their father had made a prodigious pile of money, in the
cement business, that James Whitall was writing a novel superintended by
George Moore, that John Cournos was poor as poor but very interesting,
growing daily more so, that
Mr.
Plank was asked at a very regal dinner one
time, where there were a lot of the aristocracy, how he came to start on
his career and he told them with great gusto that he had been born "in
jail" (his father was a sheriff) and how he had sold mackerel and washed
windows, and they assured him that such a thing could never have hap–
pened in England. I learned also, to my great satisfaction, that Dora
Marsden whom I abominate, and who contributes to
The Egoist,
pays for a
front page every month, on which to air her views about Truth and
Reality and that if it weren't for her financial support,
The Egoist
couldn't
exist.
To my disgust I learn that Yeats has interested himself in spiritualism
and is busying himself about that to the exclusion of everything else. Miss
Rhodes deplored the fact that such a cheap brainless fakirism should have
secured a toehold on him. Ask Mole when she got her little bull,
Bealnambo?
Yesterday I dispatched my second installment of Missionary moneys
and I suppose I have escaped jail by a miracle, the second time also.
I have received a peacock from Edwin [Howard], a large Japanese print
of bird on tree with gold tail-very beautiful; it is an old master I think
Hokusai, or some such.
I patterned after you and walked home with Miss Rhodes as I was
lending her some books and magazines.
It
will be a pretty intrepid fellow
that will buzz around Rat, now to annoy him; freshened up as he is, and
full of life.
With love,
Rat
During a visit to New York with Hall Cowdray and herfamily, Moore met Zaroubi
Himurjian, an architect and painter and closefriend ofAlfred Steiglitz's-the "expe–
dition" she rifers to here.
J.
B. Keifoot was the literary editor
if
Life
and associate
editor
if
Camera Work;
Horace Holley was the Secretary
if
the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Bahais
if
the United States and Canada. Blackwells Island was
an insane asylum located in New York City.
F S.
Flint was a British poet and trans–
lator, and the editor
if
the
Imagist Anthology.
