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 "The droning voice ringing in his ears issued from this nightmare creature."

IRECTORS, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.

Gentlemen:

Today I have just received aboard the S. S. Madrigal your most kind cable, praising my work and asking— humbly, acclaim, weariness with poverty and the as one might ask it of a true genius!—if I would do a statue of myself to be placed among the great in your illustrious museum. Ah, gentlemen, that cablegram was to me the last turn of the screw!

I despise myself for what I have done in the name of art. Greed for money and 677