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November 22, 1965.
Cold Spring

Phil,

Send a copy of the magazine when [[crossed-out]] the cart [[/crossed-out]] it is completed and I will write a letter on the entire article. There may be some other odds and ends to tidy - as is usual (- if not, fine).

That's too bad about the colored insert stock. As you obviously know, "At first, I chose gold."

About that tape: I said little and it was curiously edited. Bruce claimed that he deleted because I had mumbled or because I had told "an inside joke."  The whole damned thing was an inside joke. Who wanted to speak to Bruce's questions? (His buddy, Weinrib, told him the same thing.) Not Don or me. He was unsympathetic with each of our efforts, he made this clear to me on several occasions prior to recording ("Nihilism" was not in the program's title without a point.) (Bruce and I are still friends though. I think that his poor opinion still obtains.

As I have said, Frank did a good job for himself at the microphone. He was ready since he had recently come off a lengthy question and answer assault by the students of the Pratt Institute. He could not have understood my effort; he had seen only two structures in the Green (as I recall). But they did not prevent him from his opinion. I don't believe that Frank had seen much of Don's work either.

If you need stuff from Frank you can have another correct cameo like the one that Barbara wore in "A.B.C." Art in America.

Don is reticent with or without reason - about almost everything. It is good politics and natural to him