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4 of a reluctant? commercial world. Then off to Alabama in late Jan or early Feb.

During the first whirl at it down there we might not get any nearer the thing than to sense? it.

I want to write - not about the American negroes but out of him - the way Jerry painted that thing of Manfield.

It was that thing set me off on the notion that Jerry would see and get what I can see in the American negroes/negress?  My feeling has survived the first hot flush. It stays. 

To my mind there is a thing to be done as big as any of the great masters ever tackled.

 The negro? ? in America is something.  The ? are trying to make their race concious - fight for their rights and all that.  It's silly.

On the other hand the southern negress? is truly naive. A negress woman is real beauty, with