PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPY: ORIGINAL MATERIAL RESTRICTED

80 Washington Square East,
- New York, November 7th, 1923.

Dear Mr. Stieglitz,

Thank you for your kind offer to allow us to
see photographs after Marin's new work. Since
there would be no financial advantage to us in
publishing reproductions after the work of such a
man as Marin before the paintings are exhibited, and
since indeed it would be more advantageous to the
painter and more interesting to our readers to have
such reproductions published rather upon the occasion
of the opening of Marin's next show, we could not
take these photographs to reproduce unless they
should be given us with the understanding that we
were to make no payment for them, as we have to make
no payment when the thing reproduced in The Dial is
being exhibited. If you and Marin feel it would be
nice for us to run these reproductions at present,
and if you understand our position and accept our
terms, you might be so kind as to send the photographs
to me at The Dial, in which case I should hope to be
able to run one or more of them in the next number
to go to press after the receipt of the photographs.

As Mr. Seldes, I believe, notified you, we are
holding your Marin water colour at The Dial's offices,
packed as it came from Germany, until you let us know
where you desire it to be sent.

The folios should arrive any day now and we are
expecting them and putting them on sale in the
appropriate shops and, in particular, chez Weyhe.
Weyhe will also exhibit at the same time most of the
pictures which are reproduced in the folio, so that
people interested may compare reproductions with the
originals. Most of these pictures belong to myself
and most of these will be for sale. I think, however,
it would be interesting and perhaps not disadvantageous
to Mr. Marin if your Marin could also be hung with the
other paintings, even though you might not care to
put a price upon it. Indeed, in the case of some of my

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own paintings I shall not be willing to sell.
Might I hope for a word from you to let me know
whether you feel that this would be an interesting
thing to do and whether you therefore empower me
to have your Marin hung with my pictures which
have been reproduced in the folio? Of course I
shall hang my Demuth Tempera After Sir Christopher
Wren and my Luchaise drawing, both of which are
reproduced in the folio. I have not yet decided
whether Wayne and I will find it best to exhibit
La Montagne, which is photographed in the folio,
or whether we shall exhibit no sculpture since, in
the case of sculpture, there is no facsimile
reproduction and therefore not the same interest in
comparing the folio likeness with the original work
of art.

I envy you your autumn at Lake George, where
I remember a very pleasant week several years ago.
New York, having weathered the Tweed Ring, the Great
War and the Influenza Epidemic, seems, alas, now to be
shelving under ignominious extinction beneath the foul
surface of a cool, damp sea of gazoline.

Sincerely yours,

Alfred Stieglitz, Esq.
Lake George,
N.Y.

80 Washington Square East,
New York, November 12th, 1923.

Dear Mr. Stieglitz,

Thank you very much indeed for the three extremely
fine photographs after the Marini water colours. I have
asked Miss Wittenberg, who now has charge of the
reproductions for The Dial, to be particularly careful
of these photographs and to hold them for you after the
plates are made.

Unfortunately since last writing you I have engaged
myself to include in the January number, which is now
going to press, three half tones after the work of E.E.
Cummings. Indeed we have had things of his reproduced
in every January number of The Dial and we like to keep
up such American traditions as we can. This year we have
from him only things which require half tone reproductions.
This gives us only one free half tone space in the January
number. Since I agree with you that it would be better to
have these three Marini run together, I am then forced to
hold them for the February number in which I can assure
you definitely, they will appear together.

Of has your Marini, so I suppose you will see it there.
I trust you will find it uninjured, as it seems to our less
acute eyes to be as it was and should for ever remain.

It is good of you to want to have the picture hung
with mine at Weyhe and I understand you will then arrange
with Of to have it framed. Our exhibition has been put off
until the first week in December so that you should not be
hurried about this matter.

Very gratefully yours,