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PLaza 9-1600 DANIEL MEBANE 601 Fifth Avenue New York 17, N.Y. 12-19-53 Dear Betty: You are still sending me announcements of your shows - addressed to 49th Street. Every time one comes I feel twinges of shame and regret. It has been years since I came to your gallery - and a very long time since I talked with you on the phone. It is now seven years since the Wallace editorship & the New Republic began. There were huge and farreaching changes that produced unforeseen consequences. My life has largely been devoted, even dedicated to the New Republic - it has been a rough time and I have changed. But thank God the dear old paper never wholly lost touch with its original