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give us plenty of time to find the cases which have been lost for the
exhibition which your pictures replace.

I do not know whether you know that money was given
to us to try this experiment for one year, but it is most important
that we build up this organization within the year to make it
permanent. I am very eager to have at least one Founder, which means
$500.00, before the end of this month, to meet our next rental, as
I would like to keep some of the money, which we can call upon at
any time, for the summer months, which I am afraid will again be
a time to be tided over. It seems therefore too bad not to put in
some effort in getting our rent met now. We have to pay our rent
quarterly, and of course rents in that section of the city run very
high. In fact, our next quarter is $750.00. I am just telling you
this because I thought maybe you would help me find somebody who would
be interested to tide us over by becoming a Founder. We really need
two.

Again thanking you very much, believe me,

Cordially,

My dear Mr. Davies:

I am not at all convinced that I put your address on the envelope of a letter which I mailed you a day or two ago, and so I am sending a duplicate of the letter.

Our publicity agent, Miss Ackermann, who has donated her services to us for two months because of the value she feels in our Association, has asked me if I thought that you would consent to have some of the pictures which we will show at our next exhibition appear in the newspapers. Will you kindly drop me a line, telling me whether you have photographs of these pictures, and also whether you have any objections if we have them photographed for reproduction in case you haven't any. It is clearly understood that your name is not to appear in any way in connection with this exhibition, as per your request.

I wish you had been present at our lecture the other evening, when we had an audience of more than sixty people in those two small rooms. What gave us special pleasure was that everybody took part in the discussion and lingered long after the lecture was over.

June 7th, 1921

My dear Mr. Davies:

I am sending you under separate cover five pamphlets on "Form" by Jennings Tofel, which I think you will enjoy.

Don't you think it is splendid that we have succeeded in penetrating the museums? We have definitely made arrangements with both the Worcester Museum and the Detroit Institute of Arts for next season, and as a lover of Modern Art, I know you will be glad with us in having won this entrance.

It has cost us about $11,000 to run the Societe Anonyme. $6,000 were given to us outright by a friend, and now we are facing a deficit of $1500, which so far I have not been able to collect. As a lover of Modern Art, do you not feel that we have spiritually won to the extent that you would like to help me meet this deficit. Any contribution you would care to make towards it I would appreciate very much. I wish I would not have had to ask you - I wish our success had been financial as well as spiritual - but I am quite tired, and I find that I must turn to those who really love art, and who really believe in progress, and want art in America to hold open the door to progress, that I come to you for help.

With true appreciation for all you have done in the past, and hoping that you will come to my aid once more in the fight for what we both hold so high, believe me,
very sincerely you

March 1st, 1926.

My dear Mr. Davies:

I am a little disappointed that you have not responded to my letter
asking for the beautiful Picasso which you exhibited at the Société Ano-
nyme.

Now, I am wondering whether you will be so generous and kind and lend
it to me for a big international exhibition which I am arranging with the
Brooklyn Museum for next November. Mr. Fox has become deeply interested
in showing all forms of art, which naturally includes modern art, in which
I am so deeply interested.

I would like very much to show a few pictures which have already been
exhibited in New York as an illustration of the high water mark which was
reached in this very art in 1913, when you brought over that wonderful ex-
hibition. It would mean, therefore, a great deal to me if you would kind-
ly cooperate and let me have this picture.

Why don't you let the Société Anonyme have it for its permanent col-
lection ?

Mr. Fox and I are working on a program whereby the pictures will be
shown in museums of various cities besides, so that we hope to make it a
very important thing.

As I am sailing on the twentieth, would you be so kind as to sign the
enclosed and let me have it ?

With all best wishes and kind regards, believe me,

Encl.-

Mr. Arthur B. Davies,
337 East 57th Street,
New York City.

Faithfully yours,

New York, March 1926.

Dear Miss Dreier:

I shall be very glad to let you have the Picasso, which was exhibited at the Société Anonyme, for your exhibition next winter in connection with the Brooklyn Museum and other museums.

Sincerely yours,