MARIANNE MOORE
599
December 12, 1915
Dear Badger,
Yesterday from 10-12:30 Mr. Norcross, Florence's brother, paid trib–
ute to us, and the day before from 10 to one. Mole says while anyone wants
anything of us we
"dare"
not be too tired to give it.
I'll have to tell you about the expedition in installments. 1 suppose
Mole told you that 1 had met J.B. Kerfoot. Wednesday morning 1 went to
"291" to see as 1 thought, some of Alfred Stieglitz's photography. He had
an exhibition up of [Oscar] Bluernner, a modern architect. Mr. Stieglitz was
exceedingly unemotional, and friendly and finally after telling me how he
was hated, said I might come back and look at some of the things standing
with their faces to the wall in a back room. 1 enjoyed them. He has a mag–
nificent little thing of the sea in dark blue and some paintings of mountains
by a man named [Marsden] Hartley, also some Picabias and Picassos and so
on. He told me to come back and he would show me some other things. 1
stopped at the Modern Gall. on my way home to see some Van Goghs and
some of Mr. Stieglitz's magazines and at one 1 got back to the Training
School. Zaroubi Himurjian took us for luncheon to a Turkish restaurant,
the Constantinople. We had soup and pieces of meat roasted on skewers and
meat fried in grapeleaves and rice and pastry and ice cream. We then saw
some ancient Chinese rugs at an Armenian wholesale rug place and an
importer there took us to see the processes of silk making. The demonstra–
tor was a "parvenue" as Zaroubi said who buzzed on about reels and
filatures and dyevats punctuating his story with asides to his stenographer.
Finally he said, "Minnie is my taxi waiting?" "I have a luncheon engage–
ment at the Astor House for 12 o'clock and I'm now half an hour late but
might as well complete the story. This is the last process." Finally he took
his coat and stick and hat and sailed off telling the stenographer, that if any–
one wanted him, he would be in
"the palm room."
Zaroubi said, "Oh the
intellectual dude! And his taxi was not there!" And it wasn't. We then paid
a visit to the brass shop near Allen Street and saw Brides and Grooms in
the windows and got back just after 4. Alfred Kreymborg was waiting for
me, by appointment and 1 never was so surprised to see anyone. He is mid–
dle height, quiet, dignified, dry, unpuffed up, very deliberate and kind; he
was dressed in [a] black suit with the suspicion of a white check in it like
your 1913 suit you got at Kronenberg's and was wearing a new pair of
shoes, very plain and rather fashionable, nothing deluxe. 1 asked him if he
had expected to have a meeting of the people he spoke about in his letter
and he said he would like to but couldn't be sure. He was just up, had been
sick for some time and so had Mrs. Kreymborg but that there were a good
