
I hope the Rhys brothers have not gone to the bottom! It begins to fill me with alarum that we do not hear from the Croma in wh. he sailed.
I went in H. Williams & Everetts this evening after
work, & passed a few rapt moments in looking at the bust of you which is
handsomely mounted on a polished wood tall pedestal standing on the middle landing
of the stairs & just before a pier glass mirror—The very best position in
the rooms. I then saw that I had not really seen it at all in the right
way—before (I mean) it was on a pedestal & viewed at a distance. I gave it
draining regards that fixed it in my mind. I regard it as a noble work, & am
very glad of this rich honor done to my poet, & I want to congratulate Morse
very heartily on it. It is a fine, nay a great, work, in my opinion.
It seems to me that the chief traits that emerge are compassion blended with alert curiosity.

I don't know whether it strikes others so, or whether you wd want these traits emphasized so much. I do see too, in some measure, the far forward look you spoke of in yr good letter to me. But I think Morse might put more of the prophet or seer in it, or another one possibly.
Mrs. Fairchild & her husband are going to drive out & see my Cox photo, some time.
I suppose Baxter has written you that we have written to Bost. Pub. Lib. about acceptance of bust. They have a little
gallery of sculpture—as I now remember, & it will be a good place for it.
Though I preferred the art museum. But Baxter likes to have his own
way always.
I must ask him about his Herald notice of it. For we must draw attention to it. He seems to have acted on Sidney M's suggestion abt Williams & Everett's being a better place than Chase's.
WS. Kennedy