I don’t know many at the office yet. It’s too immense and I’m confined to a highly specializing dept., but I’ve already been invited out to tea by the personnel secretary. They employ a lot of real writers as copywriters at Thompson’s, and have an entirely different feeling about art & business than you encounter any place west of N.Y. In fact it’s a feather in your cap if you know a little more than you’re “supposed to” here. I think I’ve gained immeasurably by coming here now instead of dragging along in Cleveland month after month. --/--/ 147: TO RICHARD RYCHTARIK [_New York City_] _June 21st, ’23_ Dear Richard: --/--/ Dr. Watson, President of _The Dial_ (Magazine), has seen your drawings, etc., and wants me to ask you if you would care to sell him “one” of them, and the rights for reproduction for _two_ others in _The Dial_. He is offering the same price and terms to you that he made to Sommer,--$25.00 for the original, and the reproduction rights without any payment. So will you kindly let me know what you think about the matter very soon? I don’t know what selections he has made yet, and will probably have no time to see him for weeks, as I have office hours and he is seldom at _The Dial_ offices,--but regardless of these details, I think that it would be wisdom for you to accept the terms, however modest, in view of the amount of prestige it will possibly give you, in the first place to be “hanging in his house,” and in the second place to have your work shown to about 18,000 people through the pages of the magazine. Of course, I am _very_ happy that he has liked your work so well. This makes _Two_ artists’ work that I have had a hand in getting exhibited,--both from my “home town.” --/--/ 148: TO ALFRED STIEGLITZ [_New York City_] _Fourth of July_