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[[left margin, stationary header]] BEATRICE WOOD [[//left margin]] ROUTE 1, BOX 96-J • OJAI, CALIFORNIA • TELEPHONE MILTON 6-3381

Dear Dorothy:    August 21st. 1959

Yesterday Marthat Dickenson visited, enthusiastically, my studio. I wish you had been with her, for I am eager for you to see my place. She will convey to you my greetings, while I remind you it is three years since I had tea with you in New York. 

What are your own busy plans? Is there chance you may come to California, and what are you especially working on now. I understand your husband is writing a book. 

Next Spring I have three exhibitions in the Orient, shall fly over for a short while, and am learning Japanese. I hope to have around 400 pieces ready. Therefor you can imagine how busy I am. Not only making things, but running a business, watering a garden, feeding goldfish, two cats and a dachshund. Not to mention evening activities. 

I wish someone from the Museum of Contemporary Crafts would stop at Ojai, since they travel all over elsewhere, and see what I am doing. I have a feeling I am in the dog house there. The exhibition given me there last Fall little represents what I have been up to. 

By the way, would you advice me on the following: how to price the pottery for Japan. I have made many small pieces, as well as larger ones. In America, because of their fine glazes, they would sell relatively at high prices. As my exhibition is a cultural activity, I am not concerned with the financial side primarily, except to do that which is right.

Several people have told me, the Japanese have no money and that the pottery must be priced way below its value. Others on the other hand, insist Japanese have money for