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_ Letters Of Later Date Chapter I PROVIDENCE, Thursday, Oct. 10, '50. My dear Dwight,--I was very very sorry not to find you the other day; but as I was only a few hours in Boston, I had no opportunity of renewing the attempt. This morning I saw a letter, I suppose from you, in the Tribune, about Jenny's Saturday concert in Boston. It reminded me to send you a most rapid criticism(?) of mine published here yesterday. I address the paper as I do this note. This Jenny Lind singing is a matter of such lofty art in the sublimest sense, and we are so young and jejune in all art, that I cannot much wonder at the general impression. It is precisely what would be the fate of really fine pictures and poems. Huge wonder, childish delight, intoxication, delirium, and disappointment--but little of the apprehensive perception of the presence of an artist so profound and grand. I knew, of course, that you must be realizing somewhere the greatness of this gift. Now I have heard you say so, I am glad to send you a kind of echo. When shall I see you? I shall be here for a day or two more, then relapse into New York, for how long I know not. Let me have a line from you, saying that among all your virtues you yet count Memory, as does yours most rememberingly, George W. Curtis. _ |
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