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3. a parcel of books. That bit in Spengler on Russia was very interesting. Well worth reading.

& this, my birthday, thus far has been Horrible - barring yours & Olive's and Tom's telegrams (Incidentally, Lucy became 24 yesterday.) I stretched the big canvas this morning, despite Howard Gibb's statement that it would take two to succeed properly-, & then Jo Wojtowicz came - He took eight photos - between 11 & 3.30, with 30 minutes out for lunch. I am never going to be photoed again NEVER I'm sure they all will look mad - because I cannot feel one pose properly while arrangements for taking the thing, are being made. I am not - definitely not an inanimate object-. I should be a potato. Anyway the studio is straightened out at last. And now I no longer have to be a stained