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Steve 

August 9. 58

Dear Miss O'Keefe:

Thank you most kindly for the beautiful Stieglitz brochure which you so kindly sent me. It is a most fitting and highly merited tribute to Stieglitz for his pioneering and innovative loving spirit and supremely personal and workmanlike contribution [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] and leadership in the art of photography.

It is a also lasting symbol and souvenir of the most difficult pioneering period of modern art and photography, as an art, in America.

As soon as I found my bearings in the photographic field [[strikethrough]] in 1910 I took the liberty to urge Stieglitz to resume his. [[/strikethrough]] in 1910, I took the liberty to tell Stieglitz that I [[strikethrough]] found [[/strikethrough]] valued his pure photography far above the photography that "tried to be painting" (gum prints 

Transcription Notes:
Gum bichromate is a 19th-century photographic printing process based on the light sensitivity of dichromates. It is capable of rendering painterly images from photographic negatives. Gum printing is traditionally a multi-layered printing process, but satisfactory results may be obtained from a single pass.