Box 2

“I am sorry not to have answered your letter earlier, but all the fuss and bother of getting my book out (yesterday) has cut down all other activities...”

“You will think I have kept you a long time waiting for comments on your book. But it would have been small compliment to you, the subject, or the work, had I given only the divided attention possible during the last crowded two months...”

“Please forgive me for not answering sooner your very fine letter--completion of the Ph.D. work was exhausting, and the end-of-school-year is likewise, etc...”

“I hope all goes well with you. Me, I’ve been rather knocked out since completing work on my doctorate last spring. Went to Taos in the summer...”

“I’ve been meaning to write for some time to thank you for sending Herbert Read’s review of my book. I thought he spent too much time on my effort to 'place' Lawrence, which I had labelled as an exercise in intellectual playfulness...”

“Thank you very much for your letter, and the cutting, and the pamphlet. The letter I have not yet read, for I read economic theory with some difficulty...”

“I haven’t heard from you in a long while; I hope all goes well with you. Here little has changed, though we have moved our residence. My Lawrence book goes on relentlessly--I’ll be glad when it’s all over...”

“It was very good to hear from you again: and thank you very much for the stimulating and informative pamphlet, and for the clippings (cuttings)...”

“I’ve long intended to write you, but this has been the busiest school term I have ever known; keeping my big Lawrence book going, as I have managed to do, cost me a good deal of strength...”

“I am terribly sorry about the picture and I had no idea you hadn’t given it to me for my book, and I’m extremely sorry for any awkwardness it may have caused...”