Excerpt from Letters to a Djinn

Dear Hinbad:

Immediately on opening this, I want yon to leave your apartment on Ninety-second Street and go somewhere - it matters little where - along the water-front near New York. The park down at Fort Hamilton where we used often to sit would perhaps answer the purpose, for it was there we watched the smoke of passing tramps and liners, the spread of occasional sails, and breathed strong airs fresh from the open water. You remember how we used to talk of all the romance of sea wandering, sea warfare, sea trafficking, of those immemorial interchanges from race to race of men, of commodities and, best of all, ideas. Take my letter down there, Hinbad, sit where we always sat, and read it.

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