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asking him to reconsider & with a note at the bottom of letter than we were sending a copy of it to Washington. All the mural painters we could get at that short notice signed it - 27 in all. We got that off last nite. Thorp is out of town + won't get it till sunday. Then I went to the Institute yesterday afternoon & talk to Kelley about it. He said he would do everything he could then I talked to Norman Rice + he offered to help in any way he could. Both said they were going to talk to Dan Rick about it. They say he has more influence with Thorp than anyone they know. This Bob White comes from Iowa + a Grant Wood painter. (if you know what I mean.) Pollock & Lucile Ward got signatures for our letter yesterday of mural painters. Then stopped at County Hospital & talked