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Wed. Jan 5.   Letter for U Hla Shain
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Dear Miss W-

'Saturday, 8th January is a full moon day & the moon should be up by 6 PM. - I have invited some of our best artists & a couple of writers who would be anxious to meet you. - Till 6 p.m. Saturday, then? Yours sincerely, Hla Shain.

I suppose I am in for it, now.

Thursday, Jan 6.

Lucy LaMaung - color sketch this morning.

He will be ambassador to Belgrade & Rome - leaving next month. Louis considers him the best man in Burma for the post. - It will be pleasant to see them in Rome.

Meanwhile, I have done one large line drawing from her portrait - one expressionist black & white study - & a cubistic study as well. Plan to show them all at Hla Shain's


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Chinatown - 
Thursday - Jan. 6  
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to illustrate to the artists the simplification of line, abstraction & use of distortion. It was a good deal of work - at the same time I discovered how much I have learned. Although based on cubism - with a tight technical organization - my forms are personal - free - spontaneous. I had not thought I could arrive at treating the figure (or any subject) after the 'Survivors'. This proves I can do it with work. It is definitely on the way.

Aft - went for drive to Barr St. Art Shop & then thru Chinatown - passed the log cutting district with the magnificent oxen that look monumentally carved of wood themselves.

What wonderful types today. The Indians, skeleton thin - blackish brown, bare legs wrapped in dirty gray white rags - tremendous turbans of toweling on their heads - carrying water jars - tremendous loads on their heads & backs. The utter