266 hundreds °f them 6—10 ft in diameter — one of the Rajah's 

 fruit & flower gardens and a mosque, famous because it owns 

 one of the hairs from Mohammed's beard. It is called Hazarat 

 Bal & every Friday, thousands of Mohammedans come from 

 all over in canoes to pray. There has been heavy rain for two 

 days & last night much new snow fell on the nearby hills. So 

 to-day I am reading Edgar Wallace, Oppenheim & such 

 trash. — We came up from Peshawar over a bad mountain 

 road. As it was so badly damaged by landslides that it had to 

 be closed, we will go back another way, by Jammu, on the 

 10th. 



Apr 29th — Yesterday & to-day have been gloriously beau- 

 tiful and we have spent the days painting on the lake and at 

 Shalimar gardens. One reaches Shalimar Bagh by a long canal 

 bordered by willows & chenar trees. These gardens were made 

 — as most of the great works of art in northern India — by 

 Akbar the Great Mogul emperor. Laid out for his favorite 

 wife, one beautiful garden rises above another in four tiers to 

 the foot of a range of beautiful hills. Above everything towers 

 the blue & purple mass of snow-capped Hazribal, 1 3,000 feet 

 high. A twenty foot stream flows down the centre of the gar- 

 den through white marble channels & black marble rest houses, 

 forming a series of falls, and in the topmost garden operating 

 hundreds of fountains. The floors of the gardens are a vivid 

 green dashed with wide splashes of white and purple daisies, 

 pansies, iris, cedar, poplar, pine, chenar & lilac in bloom. 

 Unfortunately the Kashmiris are a dirty lot who never wash 

 their clothes — so they are not as decorative as they might be. 

 One misses here the bright colors in the clothing of the plains 

 peoples. 



I am sorry to hear that the papers and Sherrill [Cincinnati's 

 city manager] are riding Bachmeyer. I doubt if they could 

 find a better man. I hope Sherrill doesn't want a job for one 

 of his army friends. That would be fatal. 



MAY 31, 1930 he was in Cairo "so missing letters." Its 

 museum had "enthralled" him. Whereafter he went 

 to Tripoli, the Holy Land, Greece, Italy and Germany. Early 

 in July he landed in Switzerland — with appendicitis. In the 



