June 1920.

I have looked for everything I have

been able to find of newspaper articles and newspaper

clippings, – I only found one catalogue, and

it was in pieces, and – my children have paint-

ed over it with green paint, – I am most

tempted not to write or send anything; for

I am no longer an artist “in the fray”,

I cultivate my land and struggle to sur-

vive and have hardly sold a picture in

10 years, and I have destroyed nearly everything, that

I have painted during this period (that I have

painted in the past 10 years) I only make studies now.

I have dabbled in all the new movements

and have thrown everything overboard – seek in vain to return

to the first [expression]. Everything in the blue envelope I would appreciate being returned

as well as Kinck and Jùst Bing.

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