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Chaves came to lunch the next day - is very amusing and a worse flirt than Diego!
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Palmas 2, Villa Obregon
Mexico
July 2, 1941

Dear Family:

Thank you both for your nice long letters. To answer your questions: The Kauffmans are not the husband of Irene, but the owners of the largest department store in Pittsburg, and of a Frand Lloyd Wright house called Falling Water. No, Diego the article is swell. Diego submitted an answer to a question on housing for some future issue. Stuart Ward and wife are Villich was here yesterday and was very impressed at seeing Diego and studio. Yes, by this fall I may be ready to have some exhibits, though don't say so to anybody until its more certain. At present, I'm planning to come back sometime in November, and have an exhibit in Los Angeles, then come up to San Francisco and have one or maybe two there, and spend Christmas with you guys. 

Pandy had her pups five days ago. She had no trouble at all, and had five - three females, three black and two tan. They are very cute, and three are promised to various people here already.

I went in the first to have my compensation papers signed at the Consulate. They had signed them without any questions the first time, because Diego was with me. This time, however, they were very curt and absolutely refused to sign them and offered no help whatsoever, stating that they didn't know whether these statements were the truth or not. It made me mad as hell, so I left and went right over to see Daniels, who was very cordial and called the man over from the Consulate and and told him to fix it up, andinvited me to tea the Fourth. Your flashy gold seal from the Secretary of State helped a great deal, as it did the other day when I went to Gobernacion about my lost or stolen tourist card. My hair do, Mexican blouse, gold seal, and friendship with Diego practically led themto lay down a purple carpet for me:

Went to the symphony the other night with Che Hidalgo and Diego. We had a lot of fun, though the program was terrible and Diego hates music anyway. Che spent his time imitating Chaves directing, while Diego gazed at the pretty girls in the boxes. We met lots of people in the intermission, including Tamayo, the painter. I talked quite a while with Angelina, Diego's first wife, who is an old lady with false teeth, but very nice.

Met Pico, (Lupe junior) at FredricoMartin's house, where Diego goes for his vitamin shots, as Fredrico is a doctor. Pico is seventeen, looks like her mother, and is far from the extraordinary revolutionary leader Diego describes her, but is just