Box 1

"It is a great relief to me to know that you are satisfied with the marble cutter's specifications. I had been so put off by this vulgarisation (in the lower left hand corner) of your so perfect drawing..."

"The drawings have just come and I am trying to get the marble cutter but every one is off north now (and quite rightly) and won't come back again until Wednesday...."

"At last I have time to write you all there is to say but first of all to tell you very deeply I regret the unnecessary anxiety I caused you...."

"I was going to write to you - when I wrote the other day I completely forgot to write to you about Kathleen R[?] her mere presence was a confirmation of her gift...."

"It was a pleasant meeting with Mr. Tom Cochran yesterday. He admires Frederica and you enormously..."

Consists of 89 handwritten letters and postcards, and 1 telegram to John E. Dobbin, Brion Gysin, and Sir Francis and Frederica Rose. Also included is one typed letter (as secretary to Gertrude Stein) to John Hinsdale Thompson.

"Your letter came yesterday. I so wanted your address to be able to write to you apropos of the homage. But first I'll tell you about the hotels which I've just investigated..."

"The whole miserable affair of the Met. and Gertrude's portrait has kept me so fussed and busy that I've had to put off writing to you until now...."

"The new photograph of the Hommage has come- the drawing is finer than ever- it is movingly beautiful..."

"There has been so much to do- that after all these days it is only now that I've time to write you a few lines. Allan Stein has been behaving annoyingly...."