Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Letters of John Hay and Extracts From Diary, 1908, Vol. 3
Galahad series, with new pleasure and admiration each time. You have done the job, old man! You have made your unquestionable place in the art of this generation. And the Shakespeare drawings! I saw a few of them at a picture-shop here. They are bully, as my children say in a language which I used to think hideous, but which seems to be current now in the best society. Whom do they belong to? And are they ever to be accessible to the public? I covet some of them; my fingers itch for them. I have the book, of course, and take great comfort in it, but the drawings have a grandiosity and style that are extremely captivating.
We thought of you when we were in Italy very often - particularly in the Giusti Gardens at Verona.
We have a dullish winter here in Spite of the glut of news and sensations in the papers. S and G' are both here, taking the world by the collar and making it behave. We have to Open and shut doors, as in an old-fashioned farce.
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