Box # 43-

Franconia, N. H.

Sept, 10th., 1930.

Dear Mr. Ford.-

Thanks for your interest in having something of mine
in your "Blues". I am enclosing something which I have just
recently baked, a yankee cake with not many raisins in it, I fear.
But a return of a native after many years is apt to provoke a
sense of the past, than any hope of a magnificent present.
As to photos of my paintings, I have none that I wish now to be
presented, those I have being before 1925, the last time I showed
in Paris. I cannot afford the luxury of a complete collection
in this country where everything is made as difficult for the
artist as can be imagined. Perhaps later on I could offer
you something, as I must have a new array of publicity to prove
that in reality, that I have never been absent.

The recent fuss over nationalism in art had caused a lot of us who
have lived abroad a deal of boredom, as if native culture can be
expected to come out of the ground just because it is our ground.
Anyone is search of education and refinement of preceptions goes
to a university for such things, and it is just as if a student
were told he must read Coolidge or Cadman for a typical
education, and never look into Kant or Spinoza for what is in the
end a product of no country but springs out of universal
experience. However.

I look forward to seeing "Blues"# in these next days.