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About the end of last month - June - I finished two large pictures. It was still cool and pleasant enough, but the [[strikethrough]] [[illegible]] days since the [[/strikethrough]] heat wave [[strikethrough]] was depressing and unbearable [[/strikethrough]] that followed was unbearable. But in the last few days the weather has changed considerably. It is much cooler, and have gone back to the easel, with renewed zest and ambition. During the enforced "vacation" due to the heat wave. I have had time to contemplate and to "reshuffle" certain things that were perplexing to say the least— and still are. I am quite certain that creative spirits in all fields all over the world (not only in painting and sculpture) are greatly perturbed. Civilization is on a new track! Definite impasses have been reached even before the war II....... New ground must be broken now for new edifices. on foundations of greater reality and human spiritual significance, and function.

I cannot tell you how sorry we are not to be able to accept your kind invitation to join you in Maine this summer. It is quite a problem - to leave the house; and Joy and Maynard to care for them -