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Please tell Miss Bazner - to make a note about Miss Henrique - whom I know also - about Prado - Sotomayor - and Grete Ring - and thank her for her letter of July 9th

-Please tell Mrs. Parker - Mrs. Seligman and I are very disappointed & surprised not to have heard from her - we hope she is well

With best wishes to all - 

Sincerely
GS

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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
NEW YORK 19

Dear Germain:

I hope that you have by now received the book we published in connection with the comprehensive exhibition of the works of Pierre Bonnard to which you so generously contributed. 

This exhibition, as you will see by the enclosed photostat of a few of the reviews and commentaries, has aroused tremendous public interest and we have received a great many requests to continue the exhibition a few weeks longer so that the thousands of people who come to New York during the summer season may have an opportunity to see it. We feel that it si our duty, in view of this extraordinary interest, to gratify these requests, provided that the lenders to the exhibition are are willing to let us keep their works a little longer.

I am, therefore, writing to ask whether you would be kind enough to grant us an extension of the loan of your paintings through Labor Day, September the sixth. Immediately after this date they will be returned to you by the quickest possible means. 

I can assure you that the Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art would be most grateful if you will assist us, in this way, to afford more people an opportunity to enjoy the Bonnard exhibition which has already given pleasures to so many others. 

The works from your collection have contributed importantly to the success which has greeted the exhibition and I want to thank you again for your gracious participation.

Very sincerely yours,
Monroe

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