Believe that I am gratified by your unexpected gift, and by the note that convoyed it.
EDMUND C.STEDMAN.
New York Public Library, Office of Circulation Department, 209 West 23rd Street, February 19,1907.
MISS KATE SANBORN, Metcalf, Mass.
DEAR MISS SANBORN: You may be interested to know that your book on old wall-papers is included in a list of books specially recommended for libraries in Great Britain, compiled by the Library Association of the United Kingdom, recently published in London.

As there seems to be a rather small proportion of American works included in the list, I think that this may be worthy of note.
With kindest regards, I remain, Very truly yours, ARTHUR E.BOSTWICK.
_Chief of the Circulation Department_.
MY DEAR MISS KATE SANBORN: How kind and generous you are to my books, and therefore, to me! How thoroughly you understand them and know why I wrote them! When a book of mine is sent out into the cold world of indifferent reviewers, I read their platitudinous words, trying to be grateful; but waiting, waiting, knowing that ere long I shall get a little clipping from the _Somerville Journal_, written by Kate Sanborn; and then I shall know what the book is.

If it's good, she'll say so, and if it isn't, I think she would say so; but that alternative never has come to me.

But I would far rather have her true words of dispraise than all machine-made twaddle of nearly all the book columns of our great American press.
It is such generous minds as yours that have kept me writing.

I should have stopped long ago if I had not had them.
ALICE MORSE EARLE.
It is impossible to give you a perfect pen picture of Breezy Meadows or of its mistress, Kate Sanborn, just as it is impossible to paint the tints of a glorious sunset stretching across the winter sky.