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107/109 Main Street
Cold Spring, New York 10516

September 13, 1965

Mr. Philip Leider
Artful 723½ North LA Cienega Boulevard
Los Angelas, California 90069

Dear Philip Leider,

Straight away, the rate is fine for me.

Even after purging the text of lengthy quotations 
from other artists (including a Juan Gris letter), the writing still runs to over three thousand one hundred words. "I cannot find another phrase that might be cut," said god the writer.

Each statement is as accurate of the facts as my 
memory and enthusiasm will allow it to be - a laugh 
is worth a little twist though. (I were too toilet- trained at two weeks of age).
 
If you feel that there are too many old fashioned fantasies, let me know. My wife and I are the only editors and I am barley literate. (I had little Latin and no Greek.)

About more particular matters:

If it is permissible to discuss layout, formerly, I had planned to have Miss Lambert's "laughing boy under water" bled to the edge except at the bottom 

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