of
since yr letter came we've had spells cold & warmth - 1 day
the temperature played hide & seek with spring & began to
mesmerise my symbolical feet - & now its cold again. but it
isnt as attractive as you make the 40 below snow seem. the city seems tired today, even the
the big buildings have shadows under their eyes
weak sun. but couple of days ago when spring sort of curled
up in the sun that seemed to come up from the earth rather than
down from the spiritual heights the buildings rose hard and
importantly into the soft air as though being pushed up by
whatever pushed up trees and man. everything was amen.
you sound good & i'm glad to learn of it. i dont think ypu'd
be interested to learn of the really important
things that are happening in the spiritual bowling
alley - not when you can get the ford running at 40 below. &
let the plumbing keep its secret. somewhere there must be
a sun that sizzles in its own juice. amen. let the plumbing keep
its secret. sounds like the opening line of a spiritual.
liketo ok - carbon of water

LK TO O'K -
carbon of water

Fannie Kalonjmns

7. Dr. Bloch - Room 217

91, 93. Public Library, ~ 42nd at 5th Avs,

New York

1934

P O Box 848
Beverly Hills
California

GRAN

STATION

CENTS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

VIA AIR MAIL

Louis Kalonyme, Esq
P O Box 848
Beverly Hills
California

Louis Kalonyme,
c/o STYLOW
35, West 57th Street
New York City

22nd December 1957

On the threshold of yet another year,

as ever

If you should be coming to New York - hope you'll
write me so a few days in advance - wouldnt wish
to miss seeing you.

temp. address
c/o Stylow
35 West 57th St
New York City

Jan. 22, 1957

How good to have your note, and thus word of you.

I was in at the Downtown just before the New Year for less than
five minutes - my first visit there in eight or more months - on
the chance that I would learn you were in town for any reason
during the holiday period.

As to this letter paper - and where I've been - in London, Paris, etc.
And I am relatively (note the S. reservation!) well -

You sound fine - everything - plus the country life you love -
and that gives one a good feeling to read of too -

If you should be coming to New York, I hope you'll send me a
line in advance - so I won't miss seeing you. As of now, will
be in and out of the city through April.

Yours,

heard good reports about you yesterday on top of yr own

we have snpw here too. the sun even shunes sometimes. only in the big
city when the snow falls & it hardens - the cold hard hearted city
"where no one cares" (i quote) - & we fall too. so don't go boasting
about yr country snow,or do. sounds grand

i had dinner with Mr John Marin (the artist) - he is a painter too -
an extraordinary ordinary man last Saturday. a depraved evening. we
each had a glass of (bad) wine. art was mentioned once or twice during
the evening. said i didn't like his new frames for the oils. he said
well he was entitled had a right to make mistakes. i said then you
admit the frames are mistakes. no, he said.
some of the watercolours are all yes
a fine guy.

one hears or is my hearing bad that the city will not see you on the
opening of the new year

a new year.

country life seems strenuous - but city life is strenuous
too. only the pickaxe doesn't seem to exist which can shovel
one out of the ice that freezes the city's dwellers summer
or winter. in the city we all seem to be skating on thin
edges. the new year's edges seem to be the old ones sharpened.
& that's the reason why city people are & act as they do.

& yet today the city is good. spring is in the sun & some
people actually are smiling.

there was a dinner new year's night & we all had an
argument for dessert as to whether honesty is the best
policy. (none of us spoke as experts.) later in the evening
there was laughter, but important laughter. when it was said
that lady chatterley's lover was to be made into a movie,
your correspondent proposed his cast. he said his Lady C. wd
be played by mae west & that the gamekeeper by mickey mouse.

do you expect too struggle only with the country ice this
winter, or are you thinking of giving the city ice a try, or
will it be spring ice.