"I am sad about Mrs Wells's death; she was a very fine woman, for whom one felt a real affection."

"I stayed with Liveright some time. Then I made friends with Sherwood Anderson, whom I liked immensely. He is large and calm, and brings a breath of the prairie. I saw also Dreiser and van Loon and the rest of that crowd; but Anderson was the only one who interested me."

"Tomorrow I go to Boston to debate with Durant (of The Story of Philosophy); I have been reading some of him and making inquiries and find he is a villain of the deepest die. He says woman's place is the home and gets my father's name wrong."

BR has had "such dear letters" from Dora. He refers to "homo".