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around at $1.00 a day waiting to get a look at the mountain is a pretty high price,bad enough if the mountain is clear every day. However, anything you can think of to assist in this venture, I shall be very grateful for,as I have wanted all my life to paint this mountain not only to satisfy personal emotions,but to do a kind of official portrait of the mountain,as I feel I am now the "authorized"painter to do that painting,as Waldo Pierce and myself are the two outstanding Maine painters,and Waldo's interest is not as keen as mine,and by virtue of the prodigal t·s return idea,1111# I am doubtless keener than he is on the subject, and he bas painted it from the Togue Pond side which Caleb Smribner game warden says is not the good side,but that the best view is from Katahdin Lake where Cobb's Camps are. ,144,l411.4,.

I ~ later on also to make a visit to the fllHHI State Library after I am settled in Banngor where I plan to stay for possibly two months,and I never feel quite happy- in New York although al all or most all of the people I know are there. I wan~ eventually to reverse the order,stay in Maine ten months in the year and go down to N.Y. for two during exhibition time and all that. Waldo feels the same as I do too,as both of us having lived a lot in the great outer world, feel satisfaction in getting back into the home lot, and strengthening our natural love for the home acres--and I am hoping that a lot more Maine-iacs will encourage feeling too,as I think we/I shq,mld be loyal to our "DIRIGO" country. Many thanks for your official letter,which will be of great value to me from now on, and I am proud to possess such a document. Very Sincerely youra, }( I/VI ti,,..

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