CHARLES JAMES

was an English-American fashion designer known for his ballgowns and highly structured aesthetic. He is one of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th century.

The Right Reverend Paul Moore

Bishop of New York

St. John the Divines

Amsterdam Ave, N.Y.

Dear Paul,

Thanks note. Have just seen video and photographic show on several subjects in which you have not shown interest at The Whitney Museum; representing powerful documentation of desolation of South Bronx, which took 18 years for young, French, Martine Barrat to make. The exhibition could be called “Miracle of Fertility in Midst of Desolation.”

Perhaps you could find someone to cover and plan some use of material in connection with your own campaign; prevent show agony of the death of much of a city in hands of unscrupulous bankers.

Yours always,

Charles James