The editor and publisher express their thanks to the following:
John Marin for his cooperation in the preparation of this volume
and for extending permission to use his letters and occasional writ-
ings from the 1931 edition of LETTERS OF JOHN MARIN ( An Ameri-
can Place, N. Y.) as well as his later writings; Herbert J. Seligmann
for permission to include in this volume the LETTERS OF JOHN MARIN
( 1931 edition) as edited by him, Marin's letters to him, and his
portraits of Marin and Stieglitz; Georgia O'Keeffe in behalf of the
Alfred Stieglitz Estate for permission to include Marin's letters to
Stieglitz (as well as those written jointly to Stieglitz and herself)
and Stieglitz's portraits of Marin; Paul Strand for permission to
include Marin's letters to him and his portrait of Marin; James
Davis, Dr. Robert Freund, Ernest Haskell, Jr., Louis Kalonyme,
Joseph Lustberg, John Marin, Jr., Duncan and Marjorie Phillips,
Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson, Harry and Leo Wass, and Emil
C. Zoler for permission to include Marin's letters to them; Creative
Age Press ( N. Y.), Doubleday, Doran & Co. ( N. Y.), The Downtown
Gallery ( N. Y.), The Institute of Contemporary Art ( Boston), The
Palisadian (Cliffside Park, N. J.), Pellegrini & Cudahy (N. Y.),
Princeton University Press and Twice a Year Press ( N. Y.) for per-
mission to reprint writings by Marin previously appearing in their
publications; Ansel Adams, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Collier
and McCann, The Institute of Contemporary Art ( Boston), Ma-
dame Gaston Lachaise, the Museum of Modern Art ( N. Y.) and
Homer St. Gaudens for further photographic permissions.

Copyright 1949 by John Marin

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paper. Published simultaneously in Canada by George J. McLeod,
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