8 RUE DU VAL DE GRÂCE

July 13 1933

Dear Gertrude Stein,

Some years ago you wrote a page on me. I put it away so carefully that I have been unable to find it. I expect to publish an important album of photographs this year and would like very much to incorporate a short essay of yours. Have you a duplicate of the old one or could you write me another for this month?

I am including a portrait of you in the album, if you see no objection.

The above is my home address, but I still have the studio rue Campagne-Première, 31 bis.

With kind regards,

8 RUE DU VAL DE GRÂCE

Dear Gertrude Stein,

Thanks for your note. My album is coming out
by the end of October, and I am afraid it will be too late to
insert your portrait then. I have still been looking for the copy
you gave me, but without success. This album, which I am doing for
an American publisher, will be representative of my work in Paris
during the last twelve years, containing a number of portraits of
painters, writers, and musicians, as well as more personal work.
It will be beautifully printed and bound, and have several pages
of text interspersed, by Tzara, Breton, Eluard, "Rose Sélavy", and
myself. I am very keen on having a word of you in it, as you are
an important part of my development, and I want to include every
phase of my activity. All material must be in the hands of the
printers within the month. Could you let me have something soon
without it putting you out too much? I shall be very grateful.