O'KEEFFE/STIEGLITZ        LETTERS          O'Keeffe, Georgia       1937, JAN.-APR.
Box 1 Folder 9

JAN. 1, 1937

I'll probably wait and go with Dave ~
always makes it all so easy for me - and I 
think he enjoys the planing that makes it 
easy - 

It is the night of New Years day - 
The silver holly is on the table - 
and my 
New years wish to all of you has gone out 
through the cold air to you - to all of you. 

Last night John Evans and I - both warm 
from several cups of a hot Swedish spiced 
punch called glug - built up quite a castle 
of admiration and affection for you - I think 
we even liked one another quite a bit for it - 
He and his wife both asked about Peggie - 
- and both seemed quite relieved when I assured 
them that she is quite right - You definitely 
warmed us toward one another -

MAR. 1937

[*May 37*]

Henwar
How are you - ?
and how is Peggie ? 

My show is almost
over - 
and I feel in the
middle of a dead spot - 
I visit winter and it isn't 
spring - 
I want to go to the
country and its too cold
I'd like you to see my 
show - but it doesn't

matter that you don't - 
Im going to have a bolder one

The trouble is the life
is wrong - all so wrong
- I was the the museum of
natural history this morning
- I had to laugh at myself - 
- - there is something so
real - true - about some
of the primitives (?) that I
wanted to sit right down and

cry because I feel so surely that
what we call civilization destroys
anything that might be big
- real - in us - - 
We can not keep our selves and
keep up with it - 

And unless one can get a
real grip on some sort of a real
all core to life or things or
something - one might as 
well stop.  

My love to you
G. 

Written weeks ago
I found it
after writing the
other one ~

APR. 1937

Hello Henwar!   April/37
How are you and Peggie? 
I am fine —
I’ve cut my hair off - 
and that is something to do after 
thinking so long about it. 
I went south for three days with 
my sister — she had this most 
astonishing modern house at the 
ocean — Palm Beach — it was 
fantastic — 
the house a 
magnificent [joy?] — all white 
and gay — making palms 
and people look really wonderful

with the big white spaces - 

and I like picking up shells
on the beach just out side across
the lawn and the sand - 

Your mother came to see
me a little before I want south
- I think she can not forgive
me for being fond of Marie - 

Spring begins to come here
It is rather nice

Only my feet feel so far
from the earth - 

How are you
When are you coming East?  
G. 

APR. 1937

[*April 37*]
Your friend Peggie was justly and I
was so glad to see her - like spring
coming in the door - and by the time
she left she seemed much lovelier then
when she cam in - 

See what lives
next to you is a bit like seeing part 
of you - 
I like it and must tell 
you so - 

We saw Elephant Boy a few nights ago - 
during it I thought so often
of you - and wondered what
you would be saying seeing it.

Seeing Peggie makes me think
ever more how nice it is that
you are together - 

Georgia

I have a hedge on the roof that
Ii am watching turn green - The
country part of my city and some
way the best part.

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