221 East 49th Street
NEW YORK

February 1st 1938

My dear Ezra

it is more than an apology I owe you. There is
acknowledgment of your letters of June 3 and 5 and Nov 23 and warmest
thanks for the admirable CAVALCANTI which is some job and I was
most appreciative of. I was not ungrateful. I have had on my
desk for months the first half of a long letter to you. But it is now
out of date. I will try to answer your queries first. Forgive
delay, I am but a wage-slave and this has been a tough winter.

1. Yes I am still mixed up with the Museum of Modern Art, but am now with a separate branch of it which has to do only with movies. Still I have a little ingenuity and can do some things. I enclose a list of the places where the Felsbilder have been shown besides New York.

2. **Painting etc.** The Museum has shown and also even owns a decent amount of Miro and Dali etc. etc. Hiler has been included in exhibitions. I suppose they might conceivably have a one man show but they do not often have them. Gaudier is much more difficult but I will see if I can sell the idea. Not very optimistic. Maybe however I am quite wrong, it is only my feeling.

3. **Films** We already have Leger's Ballet Mecanique and also Antheil's pianola rolls for it. For the sake of the records how did this film come to be made? How did Murphy, for instance, get into it? We also have "Le Chien Andalou" which I personally dont think anything at all of. We do not have the Cocteau film as he was in America when we were in Paris and I dont know how else to get it. Could you assist? We may possibly be in Paris again late April and most of May.

4. The Museum of Modern Art does not do anything about music. I know that you are in touch with Carleton Smith at the Public Library as I have seen him several times about this and he is the best man you can be in touch with - this I had said in my (unsent) letter last summer written when I was immured in the country doing some writing.

5. The Museum have a Machine Art show several years ago, I will gladly send you a catalog if you wish one.

6. I would have sent you a reading machine for the microphotography had it been as you then thought only $15 but it is much more (more like $75) and beyond my range.

7. I dont seem able to get hold of anything intelligent about microphotography, but that is perhaps because I dont know the