Dear Ms. Okafor,

Many thanks for sending in your application to sell your pottery at this year's Riverside Artisan Market in Peterborough; it is a pleasure to welcome a new face to our list of vendors. Sadly, I must let you down on one point: the interior stall you asked for, Booth 14, was claimed by a returning seller on the very morning your paperwork reached my desk, and it is therefore no longer mine to assign.