4/16/2012

H'ry to Wm, July 23, 1890. Age: 47

H'ry nobly accepts the fate of The Tragic Muse (except for the fact that he's going to bemoan his failures in the theater soon enough):

"I have no illusions of any kind about the book, & least of all about its circulation & 'popularity.'  From these things I am quite divorced...One must go one's way & know what one's about & have a general plan & a private religion -- in short to have made up one's mind as to ce qui en est with a public the draggling after which simply leads one in the gutter.  One has always a 'public' enough if one has an audible vibration -- even if it shld. only come for one's self."

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