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Box 185 Siasconset, Mass. Aug 19  1946

Dear Webster:  Nantucket may boast that she has architectural gems to match your Taos Church--for which, and your letter, thank you--but I can't agree, so in stead I send you something in the nostalgia line:  The echte photographie of dotte, I mean!  Not me in the civil war.  is it from the Ariadne auf Naxos days, I wonder?  So are you breaking, or by this time have broken the back of Eliot's sonata:  How pleased I am; it implies a back and a bone to break.  How rare!  In these days when the anatomy of a worm is enough for most composers.  No, I am not one bit sorry to say--except that I shall miss seeing you--I don't expect to be in N.Y. at all until the 1st of Oct.  BUT. . .it might possibly be. . .and if so, I would certainly try to arrange a meeting with you.  It might however be feasible--as far as boat time-tables go (although J & M are having my sister, & probably Lincoln, as guests at that time)--for me to call on you at Woods Hole for  few hours or for you to come to Nantucket (have you ever been?)  to see us?  Probably impractible [sic] but it is pleasant to dream of.  In case it be not a wildly complicated plan you could call--J & M have a primitive phone out of order at the moment.  Siasconset 2134--from Wood's Hole & let us know.  Yrs, P.