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saying how sorry he was that he was ill and hoping he would be better. It's a wonderful letter. It's on the next floor, framed.

After Albert's death, I thought about having a window done for the memorial that I built for him in the cemetary.

Where is this?

Here on the Hudson; Sleepy Hollow. It's a very beautiful, simple memorial. I thought a Matisse window, if it were just right, might be beautiful and cheerful in it and that Albert would have liked it.

I asked him, through his son, if he would do a sketch for a collage for a window. He did it, but the collage was really too violent, too big a design for the size of the memorial, which is about the size of this room, and it would have been too abrupt and too colorful. So I've given the collage to the Museum of Modern Art in Dallas, where they have it, in memory of Albert.

Later, in 1953, I went to see him myself, in a little house that he had back of Biot, I guess, and asked him if he wouldn't do me another beautiful composition to go with a painting by him that I owned. It's in the country. You know, the