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10 Hartley Road
Great Neck, N.Y.
October 27, 1945

Dear Keith:

Your kind letter of October 12th received, and was delighted to hear from you. I realize that your trip accross the continent must have been trying and strenuous, but nature's reward is so immense and inspiring that any physical exertion is mended in the course of a few day's rest. And the memory of the wonders of nature — its grandeur its [[?]], the awe it inspires is certainly a fair and satisfying spiritual compensation. And still another reward is the renewed faith in the Godliness of it all, and the sense of eternity one is privileged to sip from the cup of human quest. How? Why? When? We don't know but we do know after such experience as yours that God doth know. And that is the answer.

I was pleased to read about the installation of your American pictures in the Los Angeles Museum. You certainly are affording them a great artistic treat by letting them hang your entire collection for study by students and public.  I wish I could enjoy seeing the exhibition with you — right there in the galleries.

The art season here is well on its way and its tempo is accelerating with each passing week. Our friend Paul Rosenberg has ho yet returned from Paris, but will probably be here about the first of October.

I hope your stay in California will be most pleasant and restful. After the many years of strenuous business responsibilities such as you must have,