This week I’ve uploaded an example of a page of correspondence I’m examining between Gertrude Stein and Mabel Dodge Luhan, an artist and literary socialite who moved out to Taos, New Mexico in 1919. Luhan has always fascinated me as a queer/bisexual modernist figure with a utopic and complicatedly appropriative relationship to the “west” and the “Taos artist colony” with which she became associated; her correspondence with Stein is helping me hone some questions I’m beginning to ask about race, gender, sexuality and utopian aesthetics in this period, for these particular figures. The correspondence is all from the Beinecke Library at Yale University.