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Cedric Dover-The Studio-17A The Butts-Brentford-Middlesex-England
27 July 1959
Dear Mr. Carlen,
I cannot thank you sufficiently for your letter of July 19. I can only say that i am greatly touched by your kindness and deeply grateful for the trouble you have taken. I am now looking forward with almost neurotic-making anticipation to the arrival of the transparency of your Jacob Lawrence picture and the photograph of Pippin's "The Den".

I will not, of course, be able to print "The Peacable Kingdom", but I look forward to it with no less eagerness, for Edward Hicks is one of my favourite early Americans. I did not realize that you had done so much to make him known - and he is now internationally known. Therefore, I shall have two good reasons for treasuring the photograph you are sending.

I wrote to Edward Loper as soon as you gave me his address and feel sure that your communication with him will ensure the arrival of some fine things. He is certainly an excellent painter. I hope he is not suffering financially from the popularity of abstractions and collages.

I have had to write to a number of persons and institutions in Philadelphia and all have replied with prompt and helpful friendliness. In an enormous correspondence this fact is so noticeable that it gives me the thought of putting among my Acknowledgements an appropriately worded tribute to Philadelphia.

I have sent you separately a catalogue of a recent exhibition by Gregoire Michonze. His paintings need a good friend in America.
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Again thanking you and with all good with, 

Yours sincerely,
[[Signature]]Cedric Dover[[Signature]]

Robert Carlen Esq.