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THE JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.

Mr. Henry Allen Mee, Secretary,

Dear Mr. Mee,

I take gteat [[great]] pleasure in enclosing the requested report concerning 

Elizabeth McCausland and her project.

Her work on "The Springfield Republican" has already established much of her proposed plan.

Her work has been followed with increasing enthusiasm by those interested in creative work all over the country. 

She has the energy to have made herself thoroughly acquainted with all progressive effort that has been accomplished in the several arts and social tendencies tweard [[toward]] the finest of our ideas.

No less a person than ALFRED STIEGLITZ has written as recently that he wished "We had a McCausland in New York".

I have rarely seen such energy and such devotion to the truth in America.

She has printed with her own hands and published her own truly written poems.

She knows the creative soul in this America and spends her life fighting for it, fighting for the greatest and the least of the least of these in whom she believes.

She is strong and alive, and I believe she could go about this country with her perceptive feelings and give back to the people more than any descriptive interest could offer.

It would not be an encyclopedia of America, it would BE America.