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March 16, 1946

Dear Keith and Edna:
I am terribly embarrassed to have to begin this letter with an apology for not answering your kind letter of the 16th of February. But I am sure you will overlook the delay. The opening of my exhibition the day after my boy's return (honorably discharged from U.S. Military Forces) and the excitement that followed lasting several days, was so overwhelming, that I could not concentrate and therefore neglected to do the things I would like to have done much sooner than I was able finally to do them.

I would perhaps by now be leaving for Lauderdale if I had not consented to serve on the art jury. Washburn was shrewd enough to telephone instead of writing. It is perhaps a new technique to catch one unawares. By the letter I herewith enclose you will see plainly why I cannot leave before the 28th. Had I the "presence of mind," when he