
In London last week I met many mutual friends who were asking after you and wondering when you would
come over to the Great Smoky Capital—friends who know you only by your books. Last
winters stay of Rome, the author of
"Cleopatra" you remember, asked me for your photo, and I gave it him to contemplate and he has it
yet: Are you coming, and when? Most like I shall
return to the States this winter and then visit Washington for I have never yet seen our national
Capitol.
The news of the great democratic virtues has first reached us and all Paris—that is all American Paris—is teribly terribly excited: Of course this suits me, born democrat as I am, but I trust it will not at all disturb the future of the thee my dear friend the "good gray poet." My address is the Langhorne Hotel, London. Drop me a line.
Yours fittfuly faithfully , Joaquin Miller