A letter from the German painter and writer Edith Schloss brings a delightful meta-touch to the volume — in 1981, in thanking Philip Pearlstein and other supporters for their help with her American visa, she writes on the back of the letter: I wish we had a National Archives here to give all my junk & diaries to — I’m not good at throwing things away. Pearlstein eventually donated his own papers to the Smithsonian’s esteemed archive from which this book is culled, and Schloss — most likely upon his suggestion — soon did the same. Letter from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press [https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/10/more-than-words-liza-kirwin-letters/]