are most important, although, on account of weather, 
season, and materials, it may be impossible for Mr. 
Blaschka to follow the sequence exactly; still, it would 
be a guide. 
It troubles me very much that he and his wife cannot 
come over to see his life’s work now that you have the 
models so beautifully arranged, and he looks so eager and 
pathetic when I describe the mise en scene. ‘They are very 
simple, unaffected, dignified people, and I hope some- 
time that I may be able to manage it if T can only keep 
well when I come home. It seems cruel not to, but, of 
course, they could not travel in our country on what 
they have. I find that he did not lose all his investments 
in real estate or mortgages, ete., but a// in government 
investments. 
One change in the character of his work and, conse- 
quently, in the time necessary to accomplish results since 
I was last here is very noteworthy. At that time, he 
bought most of his glass and was just beginning to make 
some, and his finish was in paint. Now he himself makes 
a large part of the glass and a// the enamels, which he 
powders to use as paint. This he considers to be practi- 
so that, if we could 
‘ally indestructible, except by force 
come back ina thousand years, we would find form and 
color as today. He has dozens and dozens of little bottles 
with colored powders and little boxes labeled with colored 
enamels which he makes himself, and powders for paint. 
The colored enamels are beautiful and fascinating. Some 
pieces he exposed on his roof or under the eaves for over 
a year, winter and summer, and they did not change in 
any way!. 
My last visit to Hosterwitz on October 6 was most 
happy. Miss Niklason went with me and enjoyed it as 
much as I did. Supper was excellent, informal and pleas- 
ant, and I regaled them with all the Museum gossip that 
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