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I don't know what more I can add to this note - Oh yes I declined to go to Iowa - to the University of Iowa Art Department to lecture - and I declined a similar invitation from the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis..  I really don't know where they got the notion that I'm a lecturer or speaker on art. I was never "cut out" for such things and I wont begin now.  With the conflict of a million theories and isms in art - it is best to stay out of the exam - discussion - argument controversy - hair splitting - .. dissections of personalities...... I must work - I mean paint. That's my job and I mean to do it as well as I possibly can or as was given me to do.

A million thanks again for your letter and invitation. My answer [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] unfortunately has to be in the negative - but only this time.

With best wishes and love to you and Edna from Frances and Joy and myself.

As ever devotedly yours

Max