The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn . t a grey-blue sky. Cantsay this is appropriate — the plum-blossom beingthe moral emblem of female virtue. A lotus in agolden lake, — a willow in rainy darkness, — w^ouldbe better. But so long as I am not consulted, exactappropriateness cannot be expected; besides, itwould be lost upon the public. I ve been thinking over all your plans and hopesfor me, and I am going to blast them am quite convinced that you can do nothing at all,until the day when I make a hit on my own sponta-neous account. Then you can do anything. For 440 LAFCADIO HEAR
The life and letters of Lafcadio Hearn . t a grey-blue sky. Cantsay this is appropriate — the plum-blossom beingthe moral emblem of female virtue. A lotus in agolden lake, — a willow in rainy darkness, — w^ouldbe better. But so long as I am not consulted, exactappropriateness cannot be expected; besides, itwould be lost upon the public. I ve been thinking over all your plans and hopesfor me, and I am going to blast them am quite convinced that you can do nothing at all,until the day when I make a hit on my own sponta-neous account. Then you can do anything. For 440 LAFCADIO HEARN the interval, I must be very careful not to seemanxious to want attention of any sort, and do betterwork than I ever did before. You will only be ableto find me a literary agent — or something of thatsort, — and to talk nicely about me to personalfriends. Give my most grateful, most sincere, most un-changeable regards to Dr. Bedloe. I think moreon his subject than I am going to put on paper justnow. Affectionately, Beauties of the landscape — scenery between Tokyo and Yokohama. TO MRS. FENOLLOSA Tokyo, May, 1899. Dear Mrs. Fenollosa, — You will be shocked,I fear, when I tell you that I was careless enough tolose the address given me in your last charmingletter. Your letters are too precious to be thusmislaid; and I am ashamed of negligence in thiscase. But though I forgot the address, I forgot noword of the letter, — nor of the previous charming TO MRS. FENOLLOSA 441 letter, with its quotation from that very clever friendof yours (Miss Very) — the Emerson quotationfrom the Brahma-poem. I hope you will tell memore about your friend some day; for she seems tobe intellectually my friend also. I liked very muchwhat she said, as quoted by you, — who knowcuriously well how to give pleasure, and do it sogenerously, notwithstanding such meagre return. I was struck by the paragraph in your last letterconcerning the feeling of understanding a writerbetter
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