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2 February

Dear Mr. Carlen,

If you remember, we met last summer in a coffee shop in Carmel. I am the one who did a great deal of work on Nancy's cabin.

I have started to paint again and am also giving private painting instruction as a minor means of income. Both my painting and my method of teaching painting are based entirely on Horace Pippin so I am at this time very anxious to get my hands on as much as I can as concerns Pippin's works. I have the Pippin book by Rodman, but would like to obtain more reproductions in color and if possible of a larger size than is in the book. Has anything been done on any scale in reproducing Pippin, to your knowledge, and if so where could I obtain these prints?

I have some hope that my private painting