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as sensitive as possible for his work's sake which makes him defenseless against the world. Just ordinary contacts such as with customs officers seem to have upset Lawrence terribly.

  I got hold of a volume of

Emily Dickinson's poems and I think they are great. She hits the very bottom of things but with such a gay defiant air. It is a good thing that God was invented so that people like her could have somebody to talk to.

     John wrote he was coming

this week end so we will be talking soon. It will be good to see him. I wish I could see more of his portraits. He certainly caught a certain type of man in that one he sent up to Dorothea.

      I wonder what the next year

will bring. The whole country seems like a gambler waiting until the next