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My personal feeling is that no business can be done, Crocker etc., until these damned elections are over; and that it is better not to bother them until after; same with Balch.

The Museum situation is depressing; save in Los Angeles, where [[underline]] much [[/underline]] might happen. Nobody in San Francisco has any interest in The Spreckles Legion of Honor, or in Heil's De Young Museum, as they carry family names and are filled with rubbish. There is not [[underline]] one [[/underline]] fine picture in either museum. The Museum of San Francisco, housed in [[underline]] the new Civic Center, [[/underline]] and presided over by Dr. Morley - a most intelligent woman - [[underline]] is backed by the Crockers and has possibilities. [[/underline]]

[[underline]] Tross [[/underline]] was most friendly; but [[underline]] I'd be extremely cautious. [[/underline]] He is in bad, hopelessly so, with the leaders of the art movement in Los Angeles and with [[underline]] Balch, Hole, [[/underline]] and [[underline]] Maybury [[/underline]]. He has [[underline]] bitterly [[/underline]] antagonized Poland at San Diego and Heil at San Francisco.

Poland has gone on the group of museum men invited by the Schultz Foundation to visit the German Museums for six weeks. They sail on the Bremen tomorrow. [[underline]] Paul, Baer [[/underline]] of Denver [[underline]] Marceau [[/underline]] of Philadelphia and [[underline]] Sizer [[/underline]] of Yale are all going; I don't know who else. If you stop in Paris until October 15th, you will surely see Paul there, as he intends to take a few days for Paris and London on his own before returning.

There is absolutely no money at K.C. at the present - our real estate income just refuses to pick up - and probably will be none for purchases until the end of the year. But the Sisley is first on the list. I am assembling a show of 50 pictures [[strikethrough]] "French [[/strikethrough]] "Landscape Painting of the French Impressionist School" for K.C. for September, and shall begin with Boudin. [[underline]] Hope you can lend us your fine one. [[/underline]] Our Cleveland Show has been a huge success. My share in it was a minor and consultative one, but I am proud of the things we got. A line c/o The Dorset, 30 West 54th St. always reaches me. Hope you have had a grand summer.

Yours,

Harold