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Mr. Frank H. Wardlaw, Director.
University of Texas Press
Box 7993, University Station.
Austin, Texas

Dear Dr. Wardlaw,

At the suggestion of my friends Dr. A. Curtis Walgus, Director, [[strikethrough]] of the [[/strikethrough]] school of Inter-American Studies at the University of Florida, and Dr. George Sanchez of your own faculty, I am continuing to ask if I may submit my manuscript, "Diego Rivera. The Making of an Artist", for your consideration. 

[[strikethrough]] This book  was begun as a critical review of Rivera's work (50 years) exhibited in Mexico's National Palace of Fine Arts in 1949. [[/strikethrough]]

This book [[strikethrough]] was beg [[/strikethrough]] was [[strikethrough]] began [[/strikethrough]] begun as a critical review of the first retrospective exhibition of Rivera's work (50 years) which was held in Mexico's National Palace of Fine Arts in 1949. It was not submitted for publication at that time because it had become too long for an article and [[strikethrough]] not [[/strikethrough]] as yet was not sufficiently comprehensive [[strikethrough]] long inclusive enough [[/strikethrough]] as [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] a book.

Diego, his wife Freda Kahlo and I had been