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March 21, 1963

Dear Beatrice:

I note your change of address and hope this is all a change for the better and that you're enjoying it.  In any event, I'm sure you're enjoying springtime in California--lucky you.  It is still snowy here today--the first day of spring!  We've had not a flower, not a bird, not anything.  I'm sick and tired of winter.  Of course, I'd like very much to come out there, and it will happen.  I'll let you know when.  

In the meantime, I did have lunch with Anna Maria Pope, and she is adamant about a show.  She admires the things of yours that she has seen, and I showed her the ones in my own house.  But she is bearish about pottery--I suppose because it's hard to pack and ship around and expensive to handle.  I don't know what.  In any event, it was left hanging in mid air. She says she's going to California and will make a trip to your studio and that these things take a long time to work out.  On that rather indefinite note, we parted. 

I have been asked to give a talk at the San Francisco Museum but no show.  I don't particularly know anybody in Los Angeles, Beatrice, and I don't like Los Angeles to begin with.  Are you sure that we want to have a show there?  It seems to me San Francisco is much better.  While I'm there--about April 25th-- I will be able to talk with all the powers that be and find out about the possibilities of a really beautiful, bang-up, big show.

My travel this year has to be lean and infrequent because I simply don't have the budget for it.  My consultant jobs to my various client companies go on, but with no improvement in the fiscal situation--which is always precarious.  I did win the AID Elsie De Wolfe Award, which was quite a gala, and got a lot of publicity, but it didn't get any more retaining fees.  All in all, I think designers and craftsmen have a rather difficult time peddling their wares.  I'm fairly convinced that until my last day on earth I'll be trying