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ROUTE 1 - BOX #345
WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK 12498
MAY 7TH, 1971

Dear Emmy Lou:

It was good to get your letter soon after our return from Mexico where we stayed for three months. I did some painting, designed a few new tapestries. On our way home, I stopped in Birmingham, Alabama, where I had the operation a year ago, for a check up. I am feeling very well - back at work.

Recently a mural I did for Local #1199 - the Hospital Workers Union - was installed in New York. I'm sending you a reproduction.

It's great to read of your recent [[strikethrough]]activit[[/strikethrough]] group activity. How I would love to be there with you - to help organize the kind of activity you envision.

There may be a possibility of my being in San Francisco this summer - some time the middle of July - for a few days. I have just been invited by the US Department of the Interior to do some paintings of the Grand Coulee Dam for their art archives. On the way back, I hope to stop in San Francisco. Especially if you will be there. I'd like to see my murals again - have not seen them since 1949 - and also to renew contact with the community.

Thank you so much for telling me about the TV station that is interested in the murals.

Perhaps if I come to San Francisco, I could have a talk before some group - maybe a civil rights organization if there is a branch of the American Civil Rights Committee of New York - or maybe the Unitarians or art schools. Any suggestions you may have would be of great help. I only know you, Holland Roberts and Barney Dreyfuss (and the director of the Oakland Museum and the director of the San Francisco Museum). I will know the time I go to Washington within the next 3 weeks but I expect it will be some time the middle of July when I will get to San Francisco.

Please let me hear from you.

With love,
Ref

PS - As soon as I get caught up in all the typing I have to do, I'll write you all the "cheery" news from here. Meantime, forget the Bycycle gig. You'd only end up getting unpleasantly mashed! Much love from me, too.
Lila.