By Dorothea Tanning, from a letter written to Muriel Streeter in May 1947 and published in the most recent issue of A Public Space. Tanning was an artist and writer. Streeter was a painter.

Dearest Muriel:

Wonderful to have your letter and all your gardening news. It is a sort of duplicate of what is going on here — in fact, during the last frenzied week we’ve thought of almost nothing else. We spend every a.m. minutely examining each plant and bush, and we have put in a number of fresh perennials and annuals too.

Of course the gardening…