I. Habsburger Casse 2.

WIEN.

October 31st 1921.

Mr. A. Rönnebeck.

BERLIN - FRIEDRICHAU.

Offonbacher Strasse 3.

My dear Mr. Rönnebeck,

I have delayed writing you awaiting that copy of the magazine containing the essay upon your work. This copy has been in a box of books on the way from Berlin for 6 weeks. I continue happily to expect it daily.

Thank you for your contributor's Note upon yourself.

I trust you will enjoy the Baroque Rome as I enjoy the Baroque Vienna. No, there is little chance of my going south this winter.

So when I have read the article in "Kunst und Dekoration" I shall write you and let you know whether we shall be publishing the photographs of your work alone or together with this article. I understand of course one should have to get the permission of the Editor of the "Kunst und Dekoration" to republish that essay.

Demuth writes me from Paris that he may go to Berlin to see your bust of himself about which I had written him. If I have succeeded in bringing him to you you must do your best to bring

I. Habsburgergasse 2.

VIEUUVA.

March 5th 1922.

Mr. A. Rönnebeck.

BERLIN - FRIEDENAU.

Offenbacherstrasse 3.

Dear Mr. Rönnebeck,

I was very sorry to learn from your letter and from that
of Marsden Hartley that he will be unable to do a little article upon
your work for The Dial. I am sorry to say that I am not an enthusiastic admirer of the prose of Scheffauer as indeed I believe I told you
when we spoke of the possibility of an essay by him in Berlin. If
you want Mr. Scheffauer to do a very short article (not more than
two Dial pages; not more than 900 words) and if Mr. Scheffauer is
willing to do such an essay with the understanding that I accept it
only if I like it and that if I do not like it I merely return it to
him or to you without payment and without publishing it, I should of
course be glad to see such an essay by Mr. Scheffauer and should I
hope be in a position to publish it in The Dial.

If however Mr. Scheffauer is not willing to bother to
write an article on this understanding, and I should quite sympathise
with any hesitation he might naturally feel, I could of course proceed
to the publication of two or three of your things at once and to the
publication of the rest at some later date.

Besides the three bas-reliefs and Demuth's bust I took a

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photograph of your figure of the torso and head of a young dancer
(I believe you said it was a dancer). This figure in the original
is almost life-size.

I am glad the other two charming figures have been repro-
duced in the Art Review.

I am sorry to seem so churlish in re the Scheffauer affair,
but cannot undertake to publish in The Dial work that I do not myself
enjoy reading.

Sincerely yours,