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letterhead F. VERNON LAMSON 4317 CAROLIN STREET SUNNYSIDE, LONG ISLAND CITY

We have about sixty good artists - not very successful for he most part - dancers poets -- about a hundred or more writers etc - several hundred socialists - ? communists -- plumbers bookeepers doctors lawers [sic] teachers nondescripts and people like ourselves. All reasonably poor and with much more than the average amount of intelegence [sic] .

   There are many community activities of every kind in most of which we take no part.  We have what is known as the Forum.  One month we settle the negro problem by bringing in a few negroes and shaking hands with them.  They talk of the negro and labor, culture and other things than we have a fine free for all debate.   The following month we do the same with birth controll [sic]  or something else   There is so much variation of opinion and so much latitude to express it that