Mr. Aneel Adams, Route 1, Box 181, Ca:nnel, California.

Dear Anf\el:

' Jatiuary 19, 1963.

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It is so long since I wrote and now I am smothered by the gre~t ac­cumulation of all there i s to tell you. I was delighted to r$ceive your card and want to t hank you for it . It is a happy gift and one

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\ We have had much succesi:; with the Vroman s'how which 13 up now and I am looYin forward impatiently to hanging the Valle y story by Dorothea Lange a.,d Pirkle Jones which will open on January 26th . Une:xp ctedly the honor fell upon me to meet Dorothea Lange during the first week of Decenbe~ while I was in New York. Nov I must meet Pirkle Jones somehow whose work has a.l~ays interested.me o.nd which I have always wantod to become more familiar with.

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Is there any possibility whatever of obtaining a set of Portfolio One? Portfolios Two and Three are always being asked for and we need Port- ' .folio One. Yo".l wrota AOine time ago that there was a set which you wer~ reluctant to relen ee because of mounting or mat conditions. And I am still hoping someday to own a se t of Portfolio Two, but I suppose all are gone by this time .

I wish I could see you and have m re inspiration as on that day in 1959. It is al ways ab lp to know you are out there, standing en the great California earth and holding up the sky . All good wish6s to you and to Mrs. Adams,

Sincerely,

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ANSEL ADAMS ROUTE I BOX I 8 I • CARMEL; CALIFORNIA • (40 8) 624-2 5 5 8

February lr 1963

Hugh Edwardsr Curator Department of Photogra phy The Art Institute of Chicago Michigan Avenue at Adams Street Chicago, 3, Illinois

My dear Hugh:

It has been wonderful getting your letter of Janua ry 19th. I lust returned from San Francisco and am trying to catch up with corres pondence.

' Glad the Vroman show was a success and I ' .m sure the Lange and Jones will be also . I will tell Pirkle Jones he should come to Chicago just to meet you.

This question of Portfolio I does raise a question of ethics . I do have some prints available, and there may be a few extra title pages. The question is: should I make up a few extra sets for Museums although the edition is entirely sold out J Let me know what you think. Frankly it would be pretty expensive job in relation to the original cost. I would think it would come to around $200.00 :- But if you think this would be an ethical thing to do, and to have a Portfolio especially put tog'ether for you and so indicated, please let me know.

Portfolio II is also out of print, but I suppose a few special copies could be pulled together on the same basis. I think you know what I mean -- I may have two or three extra prints out of the set, but wou Id have to remake the others . If you think that this proceedure would be appropriate and ethical, I would probably make up ten sets of each :- All, of course, providing that I have enough of the typographic sheets left on hand. + T..in-....L.L

Portfolio Ill ls available as published by the Sierra Club, and I now starting on Portfolio IV for the Varian Foundation.

I certainly wish you could come out here and see us. We would vastly enjoy a visit with you and a:> uld put you up. At the moment it is storming in a very noble way 1

and the ocean is a spectacle.

More soon, and with all good wishesr

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