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107/109 Main Street
Cold Spring, New York 10516

August 27, 1965.

Mr. John Coplans
Artforum
723 1/2 North La Cienega
Los Angeles, California

Dear Sir:

Last fall, I prepared an autobiographical sketch for the first half of a lecture at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Later it was revised and delivered again in the Ohio State University Law Auditorium. Friends, who are artists, have suggested that the text is worth publication. I offered it to a chic art "humor" magazine locally. The executive editor was enthusiastic about publishing the entire text but he didn't want to pay anything like what one could consider a professional fee for it. Would you be interested to consider it for Artforum?

Besides covering my early life with somewhat ironic terms, the writing 

Transcription Notes:
There is an event that is referred to twice in this letter that may be called "Artforum" -- Artforum is a magazine.