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This article is focused on the presentation of a document that is kept at the Eduardo Lourenço archive, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Seeking to answer questions such as “what?, who?, when?, and in what circumstances?”, some light is shed on the scholarly circle of relationships, as well as the institutional backdrop, that plays out as a framework to the writing of this document. Both the letter exchange between Luciana Stegagno Picchio and Eduardo Lourenço and the history of the Portuguese cultural centre, based in Paris, of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation are instrumental to the presentation of the document.