We wrote to each other constantly in both prose and verse; we bombarded each other with sonnets; his letters were sometimes ornamented with water colors, for he drew very well and one of his joys was to cover white paper with color.

Gallet drew the sketches for the desert in _Le Roi de Lahore_ and the cloister in _Proserpine_.
When Madame Adam founded the _Nouvelle Revue_ she offered me the position of musical critic, which I did not think I ought to accept.

She did not know where to turn.

"Take Gallet," I advised her.

"He is an accomplished man of letters.