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JUNE 10, 1948

MISS GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
GHOST RANCH
ABIQUIU
N. M.

DEAR O'KEEFFE:

SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, BUT THERE'S A POINT I'D LIKE TO GET STRAIGHT.

I UNDERSTOOD FROM YOUR AND MY CORRESPONDENCE AND CONVERSATION THAT YOU WOULD GIVE ME PRINTS OF THE STIEGLITZ PORTRAITS OF MAURER.  ON MY PART I WAS GLAD TO GIVE YOU A COPY OF THE STIEGLITZ PORTRAIT OF MAURER IN THE MAURER MATERIAL.

NOW MISS BRY TELLS OLIVER BAKER, THE PHOTOGRAPHER WHOM I SENT TO PHOTOGRAPH THE MAURER PAINTINGS IN THE STIEGLITZ ESTATE AND WHOM SHE ASKED TO MAKE COPY NEGATIVES OF THE STIEGLITZ PORTRAITS, THAT THIS IS NOT SO AND THAT THE BILL SHOULD NOT BE SENT TO HER--IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT OVER THE 'PHONE SHE SAID SHE WOULD PAY FOR THE COPY NEGATIVES AND NOT RELEASE PRINTS IF THEY DID NOT PLEASE HER.

FRANKLY, I DON'T LIKE THE FACT THAT SHE WENT TO MR. BAKER INSTEAD OF COMING DIRECTLY TO ME AND I DON'T LIKE HER HABIT OF SLAMMING UP TELEPHONE RECEIVERS.

AS AN OLD FRIEND, MAY I SAY THAT SUCH PUBLIC RELATIONS DON'T STRENGTHEN FRIENDSHIP?

WITH BEST WISHES FOR YOUR SUMMER'S WORK.

SINCERELY YOURS