Part 5 (2/2)

The Fairchilds' dinner was a tremendous affair, and I was conquered absolutely by Mr Howells, ent far, far out of his way to be as kind and charave a tea in her studio I thought shepeople to drink a cup with her, and I sauntered in in the most nonchalant manner to find that about everybody had been asked toto the ”Harding Davis” part of the name for they all spoke of mother and so very dearly that it made me pretty near weep Everybody caoes any place, to Mrs ”Jack” Gardner and all the debutantes ”I was on in that scene” In the evening I ith the Fairchilds to Mrs

Julia Ward Howe's tolike a cad when I heard hireed to be the only people in Boston who had not clasped his hand There were only a few people present and Mrs Howe recited the Battle Hyht very characteristic of the city To-day I posed again and cue and into all of the Clubs where I met some very nice boys and felt very old Then ent to a tea Cushi+ng gave in his roos with the Fairchilds are the best dick

In the spring of 1891 my mother and sister, Nora, went abroad for the su note ritten to Richard just before my iveSome day at sea when I cannot hear you nor see you, whenever it is that you get it--night orof you

Keep close to the Lord Your Lord who never has refused to hear a prayer of yours

Just think that I have kissed you a thousand times

MOTHER

FRANKLIN SQUARE, NEW YORK

June, 1891

DEAR MOTHER:

Your letters are a great delight toentirely too quickly You do not feel it now but you are si dinner so rapidly that when dessert coreed to see s would be much more fun I should think, and you will enjoy those days more to look back to when you wandered around some little town by yourselves andwhat you feel you ought to do Excuse this lecture but I know that when I got to Paris I wanted to do nothing but sit still and read and let ”sights” go-- You will soon learn not to duplicate and that one cathedral will answer for a dozen And I aet letters froet letters froh of you together to keep fro ho I have to do for I do not knohat has given me more pleasure than your letters and Nora's especially They tell etting as o over in Septeo to London Now, then for Ho” to McClure's for 300 to be published in the syndicate in August I have finished ”Her First Appearance” and Gibson is doing the illustrations, three I got 175 for it

I am noork on a story about Arthur cumnock, Harvard's football captain as the hero of Class Day It will come out this week and will in a story called the ”Traveller's Tale” which will be used in the Nove

So far the notices of ”Gallegher” have been very good, I lish ones

I went up to Class Day on Friday and spent the day with Miss Fairchild and Miss Howells and with Mr H for chaperone He is getting old and says he never deserved the fuss they h it threatened rain most of the ti beautifully dressed girls everywhere and ”lions” and celebrities Then the fight for the roses around the tree was very interesting and picturesque and arena like and the best of all was sitting in the broadseats of the dor to the glee club sing and watching the lanterns and the crowds of people as beautiful as Redfern could ht was burnt down last week but not h the fire destroyed all the stores and fishermen's houses and stopped only one house away from Pannachi's, where I will put up I am very well and content and look forward to ht andhard and fast as I have been forced to do these last teeks and so I will keep it up Not in such a way as to hurt h to keep ust 1891 Froet Gazette

”The A, by the way, that they have discovered a Rudyard Kipling of their own This is Mr Richard Harding Davis, a voluood

Mr Davis is only twenty-six, was for so Sun He is now the editor of Harper's Weekly”

That is me I have also a mother and sister who once went to London and what do you think they first went to see, in London, ot into a four wheeler and they said ”cabby drive as fast as you can,” not knowing that four wheelers never go faster than a dead march--” to-- ”where do you think? St Paul's, the Tes, the Houses of Parliament--the Pavilion Music Hall--the Tower--no to none of these--”To the Post Office” That is what my mother and sister did! After this when they hint that they would like to go again and say ”these lish muffins” and ”do you remember the little Inn at Chester, ah, those were happy days,” I will say, ”And do you reh and London We have none such in Aet letters they will hereafter go to Rittenhouse Square and I rite letters to them from London All this shows that a si Davis is of more value than all the show places of London It her' is as good as anything of Bret Harte's, although it is in Mr Davis's own vein, not in the borrowed vein of Bret Harte or anybody else 'The Cynical Miss Catherwaight' is very good, too, and 'Mr

Raegen' is still better”

But on the other hand, it makes me tired, and so does this:

”'The Other Woood taste in reater blunder to have published it, and a greater blunder STILL to have republished it”

I suppose now that Dad has crossed with Prince George and Nora has seen the Emperor, that you will be proud too But you will be prouder of your darling boy Charles, even though he does get wiped out at Seabright next week and you will be even prouder when he writes great stories for The Evening Sun