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                           Friday
                         [Dec. 16, 1932]

Dear Mother, 
   
That is nice to be near the older gang of painters - but is it just the numbers - or in the same room - I think the catalogue is arranged by room - & there should be a plan of the rooms so you can tell where lie the pictures - in state or in the backwash. It doesn't matter - to be listed near 'em is quite good enough for little me. The more I think of Schwartz criticism the more I see where it does not apply to me. It will come - and I don't need to worry over-much. Right now I'm not giving up work - but what I do is not much - I might as well admit it. But then as I look back over other years there are always long dry spots - this year most full of dry spots - appendicitis - November - March including the first part of European trip. Then three months of intensive & really good work I think, though at the time I felt as though I was doing nothing at all & getting