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Sherwood Place
Crawfordsville
Indiana

Dear Mr. Barnard–

The "Critic" for November has just reached me. The sketch of your great "Pan" on the cover and the appreciative paper on yourself, in the body of the magazine, have reminded me that for a long time I have been everyday going to write you and send you my sincere and heart felt congratulations on the successful casting of the Pan and upon your beautiful and masterly work.   

I am profoundly glad of your brilliant upward rush. From the sketch of the "Hewer" in the Critic I should say that you have made another stroke of art. Go on; it's a joy to watch you. And the lovers of genius all over the earth will welcome you to the small but elect chair.

The Pan you sent me, in photograph, has been duly framed and hangs in my study beside the Greek shelves—the Anthology, Sappho, Theocritus and the rest.