[Painted books.] ... I don't care for personal property, but if I did I think it would br for painted books - they are such little worlds all to themselves - and many times I have gone to the British Museum to get away from this obstreperous world, and in a book have found what I wanted without fail - so that really, when the word treasure is said, I think of a fat little thing that opens to a hundred visions - I have one - a big choral book from Certaldo that Dante must have seen being made when he called upon Boccaccio in that city ...