A good market for short stories in America; Gerhardie has written some, but all have been rejected in England; he cannot send a copy of his book on Chekhov 'since you have got his letters you probably know as much about the man as I do'; hopes to settle in Tyrol: very cheap, very delightful; 'Bolton is atrociously damp and dull.'; he suggests Curtis Brown Ltd. as good literary agent; he uses them: a branch in New York; he hears that short stories are most difficult to publishe; comparison of Turgenev, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy: Chekhov is pre-eminent; 'But for certain more than melodic touches, give me Turgenev'; very rarely is he adequately translated; 'Turgenev was a master at ending his books in a manner at once touching, humble, simple, and grandiose.'