Correspondence

My dear Weir,

After a great deal of searching for a nice place I have finally landed here at Nonquit Beach, a place near New-Bedford, Mass. It would be hard to tell how I got here. Several times I was on the point of going to the coast of Maine but each time was interfered with by some small circumstance. Almost the whole coast of this state is familiar to me for I have traveled its whole length since I left N.Y. I was on the point of going to Mt. Desert on Saturday and accidentally met an artist friend on the streets of Boston who, after making inquiries, wanted to know why I didn’t go to Nonquit, a place I had never heard of before. He told me that Gifford and other artists were down here and I decided to go at once.[1] I might as well have stayed West as to have gone to M.D. alone.

Everything is lovely here—beautiful sailing and magnificent scenery, and I am glad to have come.

By this time there is, no doubt, some mail for me from Cincinnati and do send it at once. Will it not be best to put it in a new envelope so that it will be sure to reach me? Write the address very nice and plain. Possibly you can send it by telegraph.

Write me a long letter and write it about everything. It is so near to N.Y. that you must come for a short time. I can’t expect you to stay very long, I know that you must go to Mt.D. or to some place that will be made equally interesting by the fairest charmer, but one, that lives.

Ever your friend,
J. H. Twachtman

New Bedford
Nonquit Beach
Mass.

Nonquit
Tuesday, June 29th 1880

P.S. I have seen much of Gifford since here and will go with him to Block Island for a few days.

T.

[1] The artist Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905).