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2 Nov. /45

Dear Keith

Louisa wants to know if you have Irish blood?

I admitted to Brandt that you had 5 canvases of mine, and offered to give him one. That was the day of the opening at Kootz's. But NO he wanted money. So I consulted with Bernard Reis, lawyer & accountant, and art fancier (mostly Surrealist) and he said Brandt had nothing to base his claim on, and told me above all not to write to him (as that's the way people get entangled) - so I haven't, since that first letter, after I had phoned you.

Am rather busy with the Nov. 13 show

Yours Sandy