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West BrooksTille, llaine-

Septe•ber I0-!939. Maine State Library, Augusta, Maine. Dear

Sirs:-

Your very kind letter sent to me eare ot tlle Falmouth Book House in i:fatlan4,had been fortrarded to• and reached me two days ago.

In reply,I will say that I shall be most pleased to torward to The Kaine State Library a copy ot.,. poems entitlea.'~droscoggin~-as s,oon as it is oft the press and ot course autographed as per request for the private collection ot the State Library ot books and writings by l'aine writers. I aa also sending under separate eo.ar as I bad earlier intende J to do,a group of ten or so photographs of llaine paintings done by Jl8 during the la, st three summ.ers ,aa.1 of which ean be taken as fairly good portraits ot the plaees,and since they ware :recognized clearly bf natives I feel sate 1n walling them portraits,and also with the p~otos •remarkable record of my <Jareer in an issue called Index ot Twentieth Century artists,meaning of course .AJDerican artists--ever since I started out at the ace ot fifteen from Lewiston to make.,- wq,and to establish a career in art,whieh has now been proTen,sueh as it is. "4

And the word DIRIGO seems Jo appropriate ,describes it all..,I teel,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 na• ot almost anyone who goes out to do things is "OBSTACLE• since a Maine man or woman us,aall.y' baa to buck up against a lot to get there,and you of course know tlla tragie struggle or our great and wonderful poet~Bdwin Arlingtob Robinson-greatest I think next to perhaps Whitman,but so protoundl7 expressive of the Maine mind and the Kaine sp,irit.

I am sentimental about Kaine for the obvious reasons,and I belieYe it to be a prtmitiYe urge to return to one•s na:tive earth just as Bmma, Eames and Lillian Nordioa.did.. There was never a ti• d,uring rq ten 7ears sojourn in Europe

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