Schulte letter

Stanford, Nov. 5th '93.

Dear Hannie,

It is already 9.15 P.M., but as you were so kind to request me to answer your letter soon, I shall do so. (I should probably not have the time next week anyway, as I am very busy)

First, my sincere thanks for your dear and decidedly interesting letter. I cannot tell you how much I am pleased and how proud I feel that you are now purusing your library studies systematically. You cannot fail to improve by it both as regards knowledge and critical power and library taste. I received a letter from Gertrude last Monday in which she said that she also took [ltr.?] course, and asked me the same question as regards Prof. Syl. I was obliged to tell her that I knew nothing about the professor, as he was not at Berkeley when I was there, and I had not heard of him before. I am glad that my books can be of service to you in your studies. You are welcome

to any of them that may help you. I would especially recommend Brooke's Primer of English Literature, which you will find on the shelf on my table and [Gummere's?] Poetries, which may be of service to you. The first book I think will help you a good deal.

In Gertrude's letter she writes me that one of her stores has been accepted by the California Review, a magazine published in Oakland. The story is an account of life on the Rail (probably suggested by her recent trip to Chicago) and her ofering it for publication was first suggested to her by Mr Dodson, Minnie's long-winded friend who seems to take a great interest in G's doings. Gertrude wrote that she was as happy as a big sun flower on acc't of the successful issue of this her first attempt to write for the public and I have no doubt that her story deserves being pulished. I told her so in my letter to her to day. I suppose she

has told you all about it, and that you have already congratulated her. It is surely something worth congratulating a person for.

In my last letter I told you that the German Co. were going to give a performance at Stanford. In my letter to Ma, I have described the performance & given my opinion of it and the actors, so I refer you to her letter (and to Minnie's) for a full account of it.

Tuesday before last Prof. Griggs gave in the chapel his lecture, "Ethics of Hamlet"; which we were so fortunate to hear at Stadtmeuller's last year. Thought I had heard it before, I did not fail to go again this time, for as I wrote to Gertrude, "one cannot too often hear Professor Griggs." The lecture was substantially the same as the one we heard. Prof. Griggs emphasized the unique character of the paly "Hamlet", as being the only one of the great world plays where the mystery of life is left unresolved and no

attempt made by the author to answer its subtle questions. This very fact, however, he said made the drama one of the greatest of Shakespeare's, as of the world, because it was thus more true to life than any of the others. He described vividly the conflict in Hamlet's soul between dulty and the hesitation to act; and showed that it was not lack of will, but inability to act that made Hamlet's life a failure till the closing moment. "It is only when a man acts that he really lives." The chapel was so crowded that many had to turn to away for lack of rom. This shows how Prof. Griggs is appreciated by all who know him or have heard of him.

I was very much amused at your account of the wanderings which that unfortunate note-book of mine made in San Francisco. I am very sorry to have put you to so much trouble, the more so

that the matter was really of very slight importance. In the future I shall get my note-books here or lay in a stock at S.F. My best thanks for those which you were so kind to send me, they are very pretty & suit me exactly, especially the quality of the paper which was the main thing I bargained for. So you see your labors were very helpful to me after all.

Before I close I want to tell you of something which I am sure will interest you. It is about a course of lectures on English literature (subject: Modern Poetry and Modern Thought), to be given Nov. & Dec. in S.F., by Prof. Hudson, Associate Prof. in English at Stanford, who I told you once before, was once private secretary to Herbert Stevens and is a fine lecturer and analytical thinker. I should like to attend them myself, but will probably not be able to attend any but one (on Dec 11) but you I think will be able to attend them and thus patronize our university too. The