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The University of Mississippi
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
University, MS 38677
(601) 232-5993

3 February 1987

Dr. David Driskell
Department of Art
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Dear Professor Driskell:

I am writing in regard to use of a photographic print of a
painting in your collection. It would be used as an illustrations for
the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, a one-volume reference work to
be published by the University of North Carolina Press. Information
on the Encyclopedia is contained in the enclosed news story.

The painting we would like to reproduce is Aaron Douglas, Go Down,
Death.

Please let us know any costs of duplication of prints, or other
fees. We would need a black and white print in whatever size (the
smaller the better) you have available. Thank you for your
assistance.

Sincerely,

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Charles Reagan Wilson
Co-editor, Encyclopedia
Associate Professor of History
and Southern Studies

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