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Dear Dorothy and Eddie:

It was encouraging to hear that there is somewhere an interest in ideas and painting not related to exploitation, journalism, the obscenities of logic, or the banalities of the bauhaus. It makes the possibilities of returning to New York not without hope and interest. Your report on Ethel Schwabacher was highly cheering and I now look forward to meeting her sometime when circumstances will permit a continuation of your last conversation. Perhaps something can be found which will come closer to what my work has been about than the hackneyed cliches and clumsy similes which I stumble through when I speak of my work.

Present plans indicate that I will start for the East at the end of this month. Otherwise the plans are vague insomuch as I will have to find a place to work after I arrive in the city. This time I intend to get out the work covering the last 20 years and see the development in some degree of continuity for the first time. It should be rather interesting, if only from the comparative aspects.

I will assume that you have had your fill of the sun and sand and, as I, are glad to be back where the energy can be used. Even now I will return to the sorting and packing which I always begin long before any date of departure I set. Besides, the tumult of the children makes thought a liability. So while I can sign off lucidly, this is it with best regards and the hope that I will see you soon.

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Clyff   

3A Varennes St
S.F. 11

August 1. 1954