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71 April 19[[strikethrough]]70[[/strikethrough]]69 5 MINNIE EVANS N.H.S. Well if it's an angel book, I think it's nice to leave them in the book. You leave them in the book. M.E. Mam? N.H.S. You leave them in the book.if it's an angel book. M.E. I leave them in the book. N.H.S. Yes, yes M.E. Cause I got so many of them elsewhere you know. Maybe I should put these on N.H.S. I want her to tell me something about her smallest drawings. The earliest ones? Tell me about them. M.E. I started these. The first ones I made - I did was in 1935. You haven't got any of the first ones. N.H.S. The first ? No. They are up in New York. M.E. Then I didn't do anymore after that until 1940. Then I started to painting - making these little pictures and I did that from 1940 on until now I've been painting, making pictures. But these small ones I kept. I did them until I had one hundred and forty and it was very funny that I had to keep them with me. Carried them everywhere I went. In a way, I was, it was very peculiar. From 1940 I made these little pictures until '44 and I have a lot of the other ones but then I was having peculiar dreams about them. It was so funny so I have - . They got my mind mixed up. Isn't it funny, I don't N.H.S. You mean now? You mean looking at them now mixes up your mind? M.E. Un huh, I can just -. How I did it I just had to do it. Working with something. Just working with my hands causing me to make these paintings. I have had a - N.H.S. There are all drawings. These are drawings. They are not paintings. We call them paintings when you do them with a brush.
