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FISK UNIVERSITY
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 37203

DEPARTMENT OF ART 
January 18, 1968

Mr. Benjamin Horowitz
Heritage Gallery
718 N. La Cienaga Blvd. 
Los Angeles, California

Dear Mr. Horowitz:

Allow me to thank you for the cooperation that you gave in permitting us to have the excellent exhibition by our mutual friend, Charles White, here at Fisk University. I think it will be correct to say that this was the most popular exhibition ever to be held at the University, and for this reason we kept it up a little longer than the initial date. However, we have now taken it down and as soon as the crates are repaired we will be ready to send it on its way. 

I have had a call from Professor Porter at Howard University stating that a Mr. Willis at Central State College in Wilberforce, Ohio is interested in having the exhibition there. He has talked extensively with Professor Porter and convinced him that Wilberforce would be greatly honored to have the exhibition come as a part of a centennial program that they are having. I have written to Professor Porter telling him that I have had to replace some of the crates, as the packing could not be carried out in the containers that the works arrived in. Our maintenance department is doing this at no extra cost. 

Now it is to my interest to obtain from you the permission to extend the exhibition to Central State College and it will then be up to them to work out the final arrangements as to the shipment of the works to Los Angeles. You may contact Mr. Willis by writing or calling him in the Division of the Humanities at Central State College, Wilberforce, Ohio. I shall be very happy to have your answer immediately as my decision to send the works on to the next destination depends on your answer. I am hopeful that Mr. Willis will also be in touch with you. 

I am enclosing some publicity which came during the time of the exhibition and hope that you will pass it on to Mr. White. Again, allow me to thank you for your cooperation in the matter and I shall look forward to hearing from you in the very near future. 

Very sincerely yours, 
David C. Driskell/by Jane Phillips, secty.
David C. Driskell, Chairman