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Aron Park _ Jan 10th. 1941 Professor John J. Seammons, Living Literature, N.R.U.N. Boston, Mass. Dear sir, I listened with much interest last evening to your talk on Living Literature. I have for years looked out of my windows and have seen beautiful things made more beautiful by the varied changes of the seen light and shadows on vines and trees and clouds. I look on my mantle, and see an old pewter mug with a glass bottom that brings to mind an old English gentleman who gave it to me, and who taught me to appreciate Art in many forms, and to see beauty in many things, hitherto unsuspected of me. The old pewter mug, not kept bright and shiny, but tarnished by years of service, was given as a prize to this man- he was proud of his Irish ancestry and insisted upon being called Shammus, which he said means James- for winning a rowing contest on the Thames and, he said, was presented by Charles Dickens.