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the jewelry in that family amounts to millions. 

I did hear from Gira Sarabhai, who wants me to put her up at the Cosmopolitan Club.  She'll be coming over sometime soon, so apparently on the home front they aren't all distressed and worried.  I'm distressed, though, about Betty Willis, my friend from Portland, Oregon, who is out there now at the Christian College up in the Punjab and is right in the line of march of the Chinese.  It's a very bad place to be, I'm afraid.  So much for the India thing. 

Now to get back to the possibility of our show - I don't want you to count on it.  Since talking to both David Campbell and Mrs. Pope, I feel that they aren't enthusiastic - and personally I don't care because I don't like having my fabrics travelling around the country and getting beat up unless the people who are doing it are enormously enthusiastic and show them in a very beautiful understated way.  In other words, it costs a lot of money to package this sort of thing properly so that when it's opened up it will be a good and beautiful story. 

I brought Annamaria up to the house and showed her the gold lustre glazed bowl which you sent me and she thought it was perfectly beautiful but there again, she worried about the packaging.

In any event, Beatrice, why don't we give a great big show out in California?  I think that would be a good start and I'm quite sure we could get the San Francisco Museum of Art to put it on.  It would be two California girls in San Francisco.  We could do a beautiful show there because we could go up and help install it ourselves. 

I do hope you are well and happy and will add to this longhand. 


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