1 50 1 https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/098aef38539e61e98678bc26293fdf38.jpg 2d4af3832ab523af902b667cee0d3d2b PDF Text Text Feb 16 1945   Dear J.J.: Robert P.T.C. is definitely due to read in Norfolk on the night of the tenth March, at the Wom- an’s Club on Fairfax Ave. He may come to “Wycher- ley” for two nights, arriving on the ninth. He is try-ing to push back an engagement in Phila. so he can do <ol> <li>But he is very uncertain of success, so his visit</li> </ol> will probably be a twenty-four hour one this time. He is or will be en route for Fort Worth, Texas. He is making a big sweep around a southern circuit. I felt we had better decline his offer to come to us on his way back, for I believe that will be on a stretcher. The whole plan seems to me mad, considering his recent heart trouble, but he is exuberant with life which nearly bursts his arteries with its abundance, and I suppose he just can’t accept any weakening of his powers. Won’t you come over for the reading and spend the night with us all at “Wycherley?” If you can’t pry yourself loose from your job early in the day, so you can get out here for supper (I am the cook, so it is not dinner), then come to the club, and drive out with us after the reading, which would make things quite easy for you. On Sunday there will be time for us to have quite a pow-wow, as Bob does not leave before the two-thirty train. And I promise that we won’t talk poetry all the morning. I have been having some correspondence with you friend, Mr Wood. How nice he is—but I do wish he would get it out of that stubborn head of his that if he learns to write really good poetry, he will cease to be himself. He thinks he will lose his appeal altogether if he injects some genuine art into his work. I wish you would talk to him and persuade him that the better poet he is, the more he will put over the simple heart appeal his verse makes. He has a lot of talent and can turn a phrase with great charm. I was horrified to discover that he thought I was trying to propel him in sur-realistic work—I who have for years been giving blood and sweat to fight these new trends. https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/b01ace429a6eff88c7f43ba5630936d6.jpg 7adda41b0ddb9a9772abe646e7e4a24d PDF Text Text We have a pair of sculptors and a pair of architectures at ten- ants, the safe and sane persons who were in the KERNEL having had to depart after two years there. And I am learning about art from these new Wycherleyites. I pointed out some of you woodcuts to the she sculptor the other day, and there was a heavy silence. The fact that your house looks like a house makes it inartistic; I’m afraid you didn’t know that. She is doing a frog. I asked her if it was to look like a frog, and she gazed at me in horror of my ignorance. Of course it wasn’t; it was just to give people the reaction a frog would give. But how were they to know they were supposed to have froggy reactions, I asked. Well, she was to indicated the leg of a frog to show that. I am curious to see, when it is done, how I react to a frog, especially to something that isn’t a frog but suggests one. It is all very confusing to a person as stupid as I am. If you want to bring along your sketching kit, we might all go over to the Thoroughood house on Sunday morning, and you could start your cut. I know Bob would be very much interested in seeing the place and in looking over your shoulder while you worked. Hans came out for supper on Sunday night. His nature is too generous: he lives too much in others. I am delighted that he’s taking up his book again, for I have worried a good deal over his neglect of his own talents. Did he tell you of the beautiful thing he did for my Christmas? He sent out to Chi- cago two settings he had made for poems of mine, and had records made of them and gave these records to me. Our Victorla is much the worse for wear, but it does give in low tones an un- satisfactory rendering of the music, and the voice that sings the songs is very fine, so I get a great deal of pleasure out of the records in spite of the Victrola’s antiquity. I want you to hear them when you come. Jack is painting the walls of the living-rooms and is perfectly happy, bathed with grease and turpentine from head to foot. He will forget the war till time to put his brushes to soak this evening. Now don’t write that you will or you won’t, you won’t or you will, come—that you don’t know whether, it or when, but sit down and say you ARE COMING. Yours ever faithfully, Mary Leitch I am so very glad Mrs Mahler has come back to us. I was much afraid she would stay up north. I am happy too about her job. It may not be any great shakes now, but it seems there is a future in it, and that’s what matters. I hated the idea of her selling beauty lotions, etc. from door to door. I loathe beauty lotions anyhow, thought perhaps if I didn’t I might have “that skin you love to touch” which I believe is much desired of the more deadly species. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. Lankes, 1932-1950 (Ms2017-001) Subject The topic of the resource Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 Authors, American--20th Century Description An account of the resource The collection includes 27 letters (some with covers and envelopes) written by Mary Sinton Leitch to J. J. Lankes between 1932 and 1950. Introduced by a mutual friend, Leitch and Lankes maintained a more than 18-year correspondence that contained conversations of personal news & friends, the Virginia literary and art scene, and their own writing and artistic efforts (including Lankes collaborations with poet Robert Frost). The digital collection includes scans of all the correspondence, but does not include the envelopes. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Leitch, Mary Sinton, 1876-1954 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01847.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">See the finding aid for the Mary Sinton Leitch Correspondence with J. J. 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