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The 42 paintings drawing and lithographs shipped to you c/o Budworth with the 8 unframed lithographs that I shall express tomorrow morning make a total of 50 pieces--enough, I think, for one room. There are many other pieces by Pamela I could send you, but I do not think it wise to disturb the general look of the room or the spirit of the public with works conceived in a different mood. The early drawings of Pamela are, I think, very beautiful too, but they would clash somehow with the later pieces. Someday, if you like, I might show a selection of her early things too. If I may express a wish regarding the present show, I should like the background to be as light as possible--dead white would be the best. Pamela's paintings as you will see, are very colorful, their color being (in my view) an expression of a racial Italian tradition; and a whitewashed wall sets off their richness better than any other background. A great number of articles on Pamela have been written during the last 6 years--a very good one by Mr. James Bolivar Manson, (Secretary of the National Gallery of British Art, London) --in 1919, another by Mr Louis Untermeyer in "The Century July 1922--but the present exhibition called forth what I consider the most valuable appreciation, this being an article by Mr. Joseph Stella (himself a painter of high standing)--which is to appear shortly in "The Playboy".--The article is a short one, and should you care to use it as a Preface to the Catalogue, I enclose a copy herewith. Being written by a painter, it has, I think, more value and greater savor, anyhow, than appreciations written by the customary critics.