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West Brooksville, Maine--

September 10-1939. M aine State L ibrary, Augusta, Maine.

Dear Sirs:-

Your very kind letter sent to me care ot the Falmouth Book House in Portland had been forwarded to me and reached me two days ago.

In reply,I will say that I shall be most pleased to torward to The Maine State Library a copy of my poems entitled "Androscoggin"--as soon as it is off the press and of course autographed as per request for the private collection ot the State Library of books and writings by Maine writers.

I am also sending under separate cover as I had earlier intended to do,a group of ten or so photographs of Maine paintings done by me during the la st three summers,all of which can be taken as fairly good portraits ot the places,and since they were recognized clearly by natives I feel safe in calling them portraits,and also with the photos a remarkable record of my career in an issue called Index of Twentieth Century Artists, meaning of course American artists--ever since I started out at the age ot fifteen from Lewiston to make my way, and to establish a career in art,whieh has now been proven,such as it is.

And the word DIRIGO seems so appropriate, describes it all as I feel, it is the quality that gets a persistent Maine-iac where he thinks he wants to go,and as I recently said to my publisher Leon Tebbets ot the Famouth Book House,the middle name of almost anyone who goes out to do things is "OBSTACLE" since a Maine man or woman usually has to buck up against a lot to get there,and you of course know the tragic struggle or our great and wonderful poet, Edwin Arlingtob Robinson-greatest I think next to perhaps Whitman,but so profoundly expressive of the Maine mind and the Maine sp irit.

I am sentimental about Maine for the obvious reasons,and I believe it to be a prtmitive urge to return to one's native earth just as Emma Eames and Lillian Nordica did. There was never a time during my ten years sojourn in Europe