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Answered Aug 5th   
 
905 3/4 Sanborn Ave
Los Angeles 29, Calif
27 July 1961

Dear John,

I am returning your letters, with many thanks in letting me read them. I must say they are rich and in each reading I am able to see more. As I mentioned in my card I made a copy of them so that I can continue to refer to them. I want to know them a little better before I talk to you again. 

Frankly my point in painting is rather unclear. Nevertheless I follow as best I can the directions it takes me. And it is odd that there are small directions within the large. Many of the tacks I've taken are quite different to those you take. And since I am so impressed with yours I do at times wonder at mine. However I do return to where I am and go from there. Your remark about an oblique of mine being seductive made me smile. That one was mild. There are others in which I have committed graphic rape. 

One point I do want to talk more with you is about just plain visual pleasure. I have wondered if the look of it, or emotion cannot be the opening wedge to this other more lasting thing. I not only wonder about it, I do it, or try. 

Lately I have been bogged down. Painting was a chore. But then I remembered that I used to like to paint, it was fun. Now I've started to move abit [[a bit]]. And oddly enough one of them is slightly Dana Point-ish. I think I shall right myself for the round still keeps popping up.
 
Thanks again, and I hope to see before the summer is over, 

Yours truly, 

Frederick H