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SERVICES AMÉRICAINS D'INFORMATION
ET DE
RELATIONS CULTURELLES
2, RUE ST-FLORENTIN, PARIS-1er

August 11, 1971

Mr. Robert Reid 
233 Lafayette Street
New York, N.Y. 10012

Dear Robert Reid:

I just called your Paris hotel and heard that you left this morning for the States. I am very sorry for I would have preferred to talk with you than to write the sad news I must forward to you. Colette Roberts was so ill lately that her friend in the Lot took her back a few days ago to the American Hospital in Neuilly (suburbs of Paris). Unfortunately, nothing could be done and she died there this morning...

Now I have to refer this sad news to Mme Baltrusaitis and I do not feel like it. It is Madame de Harting whom you met with Mme Baltrusaitis at Colette Roberts' a while ago who called me just an hour ago. She asked me your name and said she will write to you. 

If you like her son's address, it is at present:

Richard Roberts
c/o Madame Françoise de Talmas 
26, rue du Commandant Mouchotte
75 - Paris (14ème), France. 

Your smile was so cheerful last Monday that I hate the idea I had to cut it off by such a letter. 

Sincerely, 
Christiane Botrel
Christiane Botrel
Fine Arts Section