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F Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian Lisboa AG/LA/HF. Lisbon, 25th June, 1968 REF. No.1678/BA/68 Dear Madam, As I had already the opportunity of telling you, our project to hold in Lisbon an exhibition of works by the artists who were awarded prizes at the 9th São Paulo Biennial was conditioned by the possibility of joining, at the same time, works of all prizewinners. Although our request has always been very kindly received and all people we were in touch with have shown to be most interested in our project - we feel so much grateful for this - it was very difficult to find a date able to meet other agreements already made by the artists themselves or the owners to lend the works we have asked for. As we had taken a great interest in this exhibition, we tried to remove this difficulty by asking everybody if we could obtain the loan of the works for next July. Some of the replies to this démarche have only reached us by now and, although most of them were favourable, the difficulty of joining all works still subsisted. This reason, added by the fact that it would be a very short time to remove all difficulties and, on the other hand, the exhibition could not take place from July on, lead us, although with great regret, to give up definitively this project. I am sorry we have to renounce this exhibition, which is due to the reasons above, and want to apologize for causing you so much trouble. .../...