Thank you for the pictures of the Sloots fire-place and "Joe Gans." I can fancy myself cooking a steak in the one, and the other eating one better cooked.
I'm glad I've given you the Grand Cañon fever, for I hope to revisit the place next summer, and perhaps our Yosemite bunch can meet me there. My outing this season will be in Broadway in little old New York. That is not as good as Monte Sano, but the best that I can do.
You must have had a good time with the Sterlings, and doubtless you all suffered from overfeeding.
Carlt's action in denuding the shaggy pelt of his hands meets with my highest commendation, but you'd better look out. It may mean that he has a girl—a Jewess descended from Jacob, with an hereditary antipathy to anything like Esau. Carlt was an Esaurian.
You'll have to overlook some bad errors in Vol. V of the C. W. I did not have the page proofs. Some of the verses are unintelligible. That's the penalty for philandering in California instead of sticking to my work.
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Affectionately, Ambrose.
Washington, D. C.,
April 28,
1911.
Dear George,