"[Your friend's] gift sense is excellent...The museum has a guard who is in spiritual communion with Mrs. Jack (Gardner), and he'll gladly show you the desk where James wrote the Golden Bowl, as emerged when I told him it was now obvious to me where James got the idea for Maggie Verver's father and his project, in said fiction."
nohrnberg on the isabella stewart gardner museum, when i mentioned to him that vaughn and i are attending a luncheon and lecture there later this month.