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alone or with some more understanding companion - for it is frightfully depressing for ones work to live in such a terrible atmosphere towards art. I think you would discover as I have done, that you will go forward with leaps and bounds if you came constantly in contact with people who had faith in your work.

Remember that I think you have far more talent than I - and if I in the two years have gotten where I am - I should think that you if you took a studio in New York would also soon gather about you a group of friends who would help you to get recognition. I mean a studio flat - where you lived