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2) his wife painted, very Japanese - like, with the Beggar amid flowers & trees - his art collection is mostly out of doors. I got his address from B. & sent him the chapter "Sketch of a Sculptor," written while still married to B., descriptions of each of the pieces he'd done to date - written originally, the first ones, when he was asked for biographical material for his first exhibit at a furniture show at the Merchandise Mart, then continued because descriptions helped me to better understand the carvings. But I've always worried about the "Sketch" - can verbal descriptions bring to life such a non-verbal art? So I mailed this chapter to Dean Barker, with enclosed envelope stamped, to be simply mailed back if he had neither the time nor the inclination to read it, and comment. My goodness Jack! Both of them, he & wife, not only read it several times but carefully wrote, revised, wrote some more & finally sent me the wife's written comment with apologies for the delay. Wow! It begins "It is almost as though we had seen the exhibit from your terse but affectionately sensitive descriptions..." Wife goes to say that she knows something about B's work from the two they - crossed out he bought, & his descriptions of other pieces he saw in B's studio - "But your picturesque writing makes pictures for me." The chapter ends with B's divorcing me - I'd omitted from the book much of the unpleasant -