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Hôtel-Café Belge
BRUGES - Station

June 28th 1912

Dear Storrs

Your letter came yesterday and I want to thank you for it but really I think it is better to work out my suggestive trouble by myself. It will take longer than I fear but I know in the end there is something going to happen. Already I feel my color is improved in a few studies I've made here, and if I work it out by myself I think what I do will be more personal and therefore, if at all good, much stronger than if I should develope it under another man. I feel strongly he could greatly help me but by knowing it, I will be greatly helped even though I don't study with him.

I've analized myself and my work so long I've pulled me and it to shreds. I'm now going to just take a high dive and have some fun in the water.

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" and a thing painted like an anatomy clinic is only like an anatomy lesson in the end, it is