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Dear Miss MAcLeod. I had a visit the other evening from Caleb Scribner chebf game warden of the Ktaadn country, wbo was so good to me--recen tly and helped m e in my "sacredly" impersonal purposes in getting in to the base of :Mt.Ktaadn· so I could ~aint 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 ~ebt 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 Ill/HJ State Library obtained a copy of it, as it is so hard to get now,being over twenty years old,and my first appea~ancw in print. It was my old friend Walter Lippmann 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 ake 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 univePsity,and besides that Prof •. Pomeroy is one of my oldest and best friends there in r;ewiston,e. most capable and ~borough · ly fine person. But do tell me how you got the book,just to satisfy my. I should so like to run fown to Augusta curiosity. for the day and call on you all ,~d perhaps I can dio that I plan now to go before I go down to N. Y. in January,. 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 it tremendously. ,

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