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November 1, 1951

Dear Mr. Milliken:

May I write you anew in connection with the Odilon Redon exhibition.

I particularly wish to post you about a conversation I had with H.E. Mr. Henri Bonnet when I saw him in Pittsburgh. Namely, having written to him, I will admit quite late, asking him to inaugurate the exhibition which date by the way practically coincided with the Pittsburg opening, he wrote back that he was sorry he would not be New York that day.

Thus, when I had an opportunity of talking to him in Pittsburgh I expressed of course my regrets and he spontaneously then told me that of course he was glad to grant his patronage to the exhibition.

I confirmed this to him in the course of a letter I sent him a few days later. I thought the high patronage of the Ambassador might have a publicity value for your show.

Now, returning to a more mechanical angle of the exhibition, as I wrote you previously the shipment will be made by air form here to Cleveland, and would you mind if I suggested a similar method to forward it to Minneapolis. This is mainly, in view of the delicate medium of the pastels and drawings, to reduce handling to a minimum, and also provide better protection for the frames, some of them being very valuable, and probably to avoid the rough handling by Railway Express.

At the same time it reduces to a minimum the exposure of the cases to the cold - as changes of temperature are also so detrimental to pastels and drawings carried out on paper.

To facilitate packing and unpacking, as the cases will be made in

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