COLONIAL
OFFICE
MON
My reference.
Your reference
54471/51
A18
The Church House,
Great Smith Street,
S.W.1.
December, 1951.
I am sorry that we have been so long in replying to your letter of the 23rd November. We have been scratching our heads to try and find some way of organizing an informal exhibition and I very much regret that in the end we have been unable to arrange one.
This is a great disappointment to us, as
I fear it will be to you. But, as Anderson said when you and he and Grimwood talked the matter over, the main difficulty has been that we have no authority for spending anything on such an exhibition, however small the sum that might be necessary.
This lack of funds has meant that we cannot overcome the various snags pointed out to us by the Crown Agents
(a)
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viz
transport would have to be arranged
to carry the pictures to and from the place of exhibition.
(b) apparently
apparently an exhibition would complicate the insurance of the pictures.
(c) When Bolton & Fairhead were consulted they did not like the idea of an
D. J. Sloss, Esq., C.B.E., LI.D., M.A.
/exhibition