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in your drawing room - sipping that wonderful enervating beverage - and talking about art and the mental or fanciful inferences relative to it........No airplane or scientific implement can carry us aloft into such realms .....

Paul will soon be leaving for Paris. By the way - Paul's daughter is engaged to a young Frenchman and I believe will be married soon. Did you come across the Books-of-the Month Club "News" for May, with the flower painting (still-life) by me - and a biographical sketch by Seaver. [[&?]] Raymond and Raymond reproduced this same painting - 21" x 7 1/2" and is on sale or on the market.

I hope you got your new Buick on time. It is absolutely impossible to get any new car up here. So you are really lucky. People up here have to wait a year or a year and a half.

Well I will write soon again - and hope to have nice things to write about. Meanwhile I wish you all the best and happiest of life and in this both Frances and Jay join me.

As ever, devotedly yours

Max