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*American Artist* 330 WEST 42nd STREET, NEW YORK February 14, 1945 Mr. Robert Carlen 323 South Sixteenth Street Philadelphia 2, Pennsylvania Dear Mr. Carlen: I am grateful to you and Mr. Pippin for complying with my request, made to Mr. Pippin, for an explanation in the artist's own words of his interesting picture, "The Holy Mountain." I agree with you that this statement should be printed exactly as he has written it with all its grammatical eccentricities. These, as you say, are essential to the spirit of the writing. Please thank Mr. Pippin for me and tell him how much I am enjoying his picture. Cordially, Watson Ernest W. Watson Editor EWW:AG