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NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION F Street at Eighth, NW.Washington,D.C.20560 September 22, 1976 Jacob Lawrence 4316 37th Avenue, N.E. Seattle, Washington 98105 Dear Mr. Lawrence: The National Portrait Gallery is trying to locate self-portraits of certain contemporary American artists. If you have a self-portrait we would like to obtain a photograph of it for the permanent record in our Catalog of American Portraits. We are willing to pay for this. If your self-portrait is in another collection would you be willing to give us the owner's name and address? Please feel free to call me collect at 202-381-5169 if you have any questions. Looking forward to hearing from you I am, Sincerely yours, Robert G. Stewart Robert G. Stewart Curator