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the light of the sun without casting a shaddow of himself. I have been going at a much slower pace in the last few months  — having taken a sort of new measure of modern art a new estimate of it, of its origins its aspect... There are thousands of directions, and my aim and hope is to follow or pursue a direction wherein the spiritual is not smothered under, or mauled between geometry of the inanimate. Gesture, mood, hope, aspiration ecstasy, adoration must not be disarded, for lesser things — unless it be decorative, or diagramatic that is preferred by the respective artists or seekers....... We will talk about this when we meet.
As soon as I learn from Paul what he plans to do, I will write to you. I can hardly tell you how happy you made me feel by offering me such a magnificent holiday which I believe I will be able to avail myself of either before or after my exhibition — if I have to have one. I pray I don't have to! It is such a strain and I have exhibited as you know every year for the past five years. Isn't it too much? 
I suppose you know that I received the second prize of $2000.00 from the Pepsi-Cola Co. competition. Everybody said I should have