Letters Author:Josephine Huneker Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1902 To Richard Aldricb The book referred to in this letter is "Melomaniacs." Mr. Richard Aldrich, now the music critic for The New York Times, was at this... more » time on the staff of The New York Tribune, and therefore associated with Mr. Cortissoz, the Literary and Art Editor of The Tribune. x, T-. March o-igoa My Dear Richard: I owe you a letter of thanks for the interest you displayed in my mellow lunacies. Also, I wish to make you the bearer of a message to Mr. Cortissoz for his admirable review. Did I but know him I should certainly play the part of the grateful author. But I know he is a busy man and that my gratitude can be better conveyed. And I am grateful, Dick! When a fellow like R. C. [Royal Cortissoz] puts his finger on the exact note of your keyboard you are bound to feel flattered: that's what he did. Whether he had "roasted" or praised me mattered little beyond one's conventional vanity being mortified andc. But to hit off those lunatic stories in a phrase is what pleases my midriff. If I had taken them "seriously" I should not have published them. They smell to heaven! Thank you my lad. As ever T To H. E. Krebbiel Many of the letters in this collection are written to Henry E. Krehbiel, the music critic and author, with whom Mr. Huneker had a friendship of long standing and was closely associated in his work. Since 1880 Mr. Krehbiel has been the critic of The New York Tribune. The Carrollton Dear Harry: April 10-02 Now in the name of God why isn't an invitation sent to a man's address—to where he lives? I never go to The Sun except Friday afternoon—ask Billy H. [Henderson]. He is usually there at the same time. Of course I'm mad. Who wouldn't be? I go to Philadelphia this afternoon at 5—I hope I go again next week—business that can't be neg...« less