110 East Franklin Street

Richmond

Virginia

 

My Dear Mr Hopkins,

            When I recd your book upon the war, I was struck with the very vivid imagery of the paragraph which I quoted in Cease Firing! That was a year or more before I came to write the Gettysburg chapter. When I did so my mind reverted to that image of yours—"a / beautiful carpet, a costly carpet, more costly than Axminster or velvet. The figures were horses and men all matted and woven together into a kind of coverlet there." I took the book out of my case of war books, read the paragraph again, and decided that no one could improve upon it. And so I quoted it—giving your name—for the closing touch in the Gettysburg chapter. I consider it an altogether / admirable bit of description.

 

            With all good wishes, believe me,

                                                            Very sincerely yours,

                                                                        Mary Johnston

 

January the twenty-ninth, 1910

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