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Dorothy C. Miller 
12 East Eighth Street
New York, New York 10003

September 12, 1978

Mrs. Ruth Bowman
10701 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90024

Dear Ruth:

I am shocked and very sorry that I have not answered your letter of July 24. I am sending you herewith a zerox of Gorky's manuscript of his story about the murals.

I have searched for the photograph of Gorky on a scaffolding working on a mural and I have not found it. It is possible that it is the photograph that we all know in which he is standing on a small step ladder. However, if I told you there was one of him on a scaffolding, my impression is that there must have been one. Besides Wendy remembers me showing her one of a man on a scaffolding painting a mural. I will go and search the files in the Museum of Modern Art to see if I can find it there.

There are so many things that I remember having had that I feel sure I no longer have. For instance, there was a booklet or very full press release describing all the murals that were being prepared by various artists for the World's Fair in 1939. That [smudged] I longer have and yet would never have discarded, so perhaps I can locate it in the Museum. When I left, I took only my personal files. This booklet would tell us whether Gorky ever did a mural for the World's Fair, which I think very unlikely in the late 1930s.

Another thing that I am worried about it letting the original of this precious Gorky manuscript go out to be framed at the Newark Museum and then travel with the exhibition. Perhaps we should use the xerox instead?