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SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART
THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FRANCISCO ART ASSOCIATION
WAR MEMORIAL • CIVIC CENTER • HEMLOCK 2040 • SAN FRANCISCO • CALIFORNIA

WILLIAM W. CROCKER, President
GRACE L. McCANN MORLEY, Director

March 6, 1942

Airmail

Mr. Robert Carlen
Carlen Galleries
323 South 16th Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dear Mr. Carlen:

Many thanks for your letter. I am writing Mrs. Force for loans and the Philadelphia Museum as you request. I hope we shall get them all. It is quite possible that Laughton will not lend simply because he may like the painting so much he might not like to have it away from him, but we shall try in any case and hope for luck. Hollywood is almost well over 400 miles away from here you see, so it is still quite a distance.

I am making note of the fact that you would like to have both Langston Hughes and Edward G. Robinson informed the show is here, and shall write to them both. We do not print separate announcements for exhibitions, but include them on our monthly calendar. It is a sort of local Press custom. I shall enclose one of these and send a note to each of your prospective patrons. Is there any objections to my saying that you had suggested I call their attention to the show?

Thanks so much for sending me the photograph of the Utrillo. It does look like a very fine one, and the price is atractively cheap to me. Unfortunately, we have an excellent one of this particular period, though the theme is somewhat different, and until we get some of the other things that we should have to fill out our collection we should not repeat on an artist already represented. I am returning the photograph to you therefore, but with our thanks.