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JACQUES SELIGMANN & CO., INC.
5 East 57th Street
New York 22, N. Y.

June 2nd, 1945

Dear Baron:

It was a great pleasure to receive your kind lines of May 6th and to hear that you are in good health and very active in the fields of literature and science.

I would certainly be thrilled to receive your books which I am very much looking forward to reading. 

As it happens, I know two book publishers; one heads an extremely important American Company, Alfred Knopf; the other, a less important but successul firm run by a Frenchman, Schiffrin in which Rouchard, brother-in-law of Brisson, the academician, has a kind of partnership. It would be easy for me to submit your books to them and, when they will be as interested as I hope they will, find out whether they would like to publish them in French or have them translated into English. The American firm loves to translate French books into English and has had enormous success in doing so. 

As regards your works of art, the news you gave me of their bombing is very sad, but I hope your portraits of Rembrandt and Hals and the Latour are still in existence. They, together with the Guardis, would be best absorbed by the American market.

For the time being I am staying in the United States as the inner situation of our firm requires my presence here more than in Europe but that doesn't mean at all that I won't be visiting you in Lisbon before long. Perhaps you, on the other hand, will take the trip to New York and give me the great pleasure of seeing you here. 

New York is artistically very active and from a medical point of view I think you would also find it very interesting, as from what I hear researches are carried on incessantly and progress is being made in anaesthetics, chemical antiseptics, various vaccinations, etc. that I am sure you have heard of but that would all be of great interest to you. Amongst others, the research on tuberculosis is being carried on systematically in factories by the accelerated examination of all the workers, with the use of radiographical micro-film. This takes hardly any of the workers time and the results are excellent. For this purpose there has been devised an automatic apparatus for regulating the hardness of the X-rays taking into consideration the thickness of the chest.

With renewed thanks for your letter, and with best wishes,

Very sincerely yours,

(George E. Seligmann)

Dr. Henri de Rothschild
Casa Nossa Senhora da Saude
Estrada da Ameixoeira, 129 (Lumiar)
Lisboa Norte, Portugal

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