Mr. Charles L. Frost is known as a collector of good pictures. He sold one collection two or three years ago, and his prospectus says that the present gallery was reserved from that sale.

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.

Frost wished he could tell Kay how he felt toward her, so he wrote her a poem, “The Silken Tent,” a poem his daughter, Lesley, thought Frost had written for his wife. Elinor was “the ...