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December 13, 1973

Mme. Sheila Hicks Zanartu
Atelier des Grands Augustins
30 Rue Dauphine
Paris 6, France

Sheila dear:

I have been waiting to hear from you with the guesstimate for AT&T. We are planning to have a large meeting the first week in January, so I hope that this will be forthcoming soon.

After many cancellations on my part rather than this, I had a long, quiet and really satisfactory lunch with Charles Slatkin last week. Among other things that we talked about was, naturally, your show. It occurred to me that timing was quite important. If we could plan the show so that it would coincide with your receiving the medal so that it can be announced in the publicity, etc., I think this has enormous advantages.

This last week I went to see Olga's exhibition at Emmerick, and she had three new things which I found quite nice. The show looked fine in those elegant spaces downtown. I frankly do not know what the reaction will be, if any, from the press.

Moik had a display rather than an exhibition at Ruth Kaufmann's. She had three small pieces like the one you loved in our book, and then she has gone of into a series of multiples of tufted synthetics which I felt were rather dreadful, and on which the prices were enormous. I of course mention the pieces because I still feel that