It seems to me that an artist must surely sit up nights to think out ways of being a d—d fool. Gerhardt knows we are not in Hartford, yet he must go & send his d—d statue there, & ask that it be reshipped thence to 6 East 23d st New York for exhibition.

Now when you get a chance will you just go to work & collar that little statue & stop it from getting to Hartford? Just hang on to it till 6 east 23d street is ready to take it & exhibit it.

I could swear my teeth loose over this d—d idiocy.