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27 Broadway, Bangor,:Maine. Nov.IIth.,I939.

Dear Miss MacLeod. I had a visit the other evening from Caleb Scribner cheif game warden of the Ktaadn country, who was so good to me recen tly and helped m e in my "sacredly" impersonal purposes in gettin g in to the base of Mt.Ktaadn so I could paint it at its best-a most remarkable person,one of the finest men I have met in a long, long time. He incidentally tells me that you lebt him a copy of my early book-Adventures in the Arts--which was very kind of you,but I am most intrigued as to how the [letters crossed out] State Library obtained a copy of it, as it is so hard to get now,being over twenty years old,and my first appearance in print. It was my old friend Walter L ippmann the political writer who set me off in writing,and printed the first essay on art that I ever wrote. I would have sent a copy of it long ago to the State Library if it had been available, but do let me know how you got hold of it,as I should so much like to know. I gave a copy to the library at Lewiston some time ago when it was eaier to acquire,and I had hoped also to get one for the Coram Library at Bates,,because though I am not a graduate of it or any other college,I take great pride in the deveolpment of Bates, and one day when it is feasible, I want to give a lectu lecture on art there, as a kind of testimonial to the charming university,and besides that P rof. Pomeroy is one of my oldest and best friends there in L ewiston,a most capable and thoroughly fine person. But do tell me how you got the book,just to satisfy my curiosity. I should so like to run down to Augusta for the day and call on you all , and perhaps I can do that before I go down to N. Y. in January. I plan now to go north again for Xmas to stay with Caleb Scribner, as he wants to help me get other views of K- taadn in snow. Best wishes to all, and my noble state. I love it and admire it tremendously. Very Sincerely, Marsden Hartley [handwritten signature] [following text is handwritten in the margins] Have you seen the Bread load anthology - two very poor poems [?] if any Belle Adams [?] - she won 1st prize but a long [??] arc [?] the Aussie McCoulters [?] legend [???] in Patten, Maine too.