I sympathise with the artistic temperament; I remember you used sometimes to hint to me that you thought my own temperament too artistic.
I don't think that in Boston there is any real sympathy with the artistic temperament; we tend to make everything a matter of right and wrong.

And in Boston one can't _live--on ne peut pas vivre_, as they say here.

I don't mean one can't reside--for a great many people manage that; but one can't live aesthetically--I may almost venture to say, sensuously.

This is why I have always been so much drawn to the French, who are so aesthetic, so sensuous.

I am so sorry that Theophile Gautier has passed away; I should have liked so much to go and see him, and tell him all that I owe him.