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2/23/31 Dear Charles.

 It is a shame they sent the piece in the paper. They do that sort of thing.

I wish that into it there had come some of the things you said in your letter - about how the painter - a real one really feels.

 People are such fools. shrewd? people who would be fairly? alive in judging another person

let themselves be so fr?ked about art.

 It is due sometimes to a kind of decent? banuility? too. This reason - this artist - they think - having

been told some such thing - lives in a strange rarified atmosphere.

 This gives the little talkers? such a ? chance - they all set themselves up.
 The man who couldn't possibly be sold a second rate horse will fall for any kind of

second rate painting.

 Because he doesn't a p himself to receive? it.