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4East 12th.St,
New York City,
Oct. 6th., 1938 .

Dear Ned,

Your letter came this morning.Thank you very much. I regret that the World Telegram piece made it look as if you voted for Mahoney.The reporter over the phone said that he was asking you and others for statements, so I conjectured that you would speak for yourself.  As for the breach of etiquette of my speaking at all to the press, I apologize, indeed,I was very innocent of this restriction.
As for the statements themselves,both in the press and in my letters to you,I do not retract; not to save face , but because I said what I believed.  Yesterday I wrote to the Art Digest to correct a few of the misquotes and adding" the point is not plagerism,but what is the matter with the Section of Paintings and Sculpture"?
Many people rang me up after t he publication of article and congratulated me.
I am even more in despair over your artistic judgement than you are about mine.