Jan 13, 1961

MADELINE IN LONDON:

After thinking some three years in images on this book, looking at London, sketching London, going through books, photographs, doing at least a thousand sketches, now that the time of execution has arrived, almost all that was preconceived has to be discarded and a whole new system of visual presentation invented on account of something that did not come out of hiding until now.

THE USE THAT HAS BEEN MADE OF THIS MATERIAL IN ADVERTISING, FOR EXAMPLE A WHOLE PAGE DONE OF THE SCOTCH GUARDS, IS OUT, FOR IT LOOKS LIKE AN AD FOR DEWARS SCOTCH WHISKEY.

Luckily I have swung myself back on the trapeze and found a way out, and that is always, to go back and look at it with fresh eyes, so I have locked all the soldiers and parade stuff that was away, and rearranged them in new formations and placed them so, that they do not look like whiskey ads, traveling posters or 'Come Visit England' throw aways.

LB.