ALS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, blind-embossed The Shelton—New York letterhead, March 29, 1927. Letter to noted writer and critic Lewis Mumford, in part: “I saw you on the street yesterday but didn’t speak to you because I have not written you since I saw what you wrote about me. I want to tell you that it is the first time that I have had an altogether pleasant shock from an article written on me. They always seem to sort of upset me—and usually rather unpleasantly—This was so pleasant it seemed quite as unbelievable as the pleasant ones.” In fine condition. Accompanied by a program for a 1944 exhibition of her paintings. In March 1927, Mumford wrote of O'Keeffe: 'She has beautified the sense of what it is to be a woman; she has revealed the intimacies of love's juncture with the purity and the absence of shame that lovers feel in their meeting; she has brought what was inarticulate and troubled and confused into the realm of conscious beauty, where it may be recalled and enjoyed with a new intensity; she has, in sum, found a language for experiences that are otherwise too intimate to be shared.'
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