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MARCHESA PATRIZI
VIA MARGUTTA 54(7?), ROMA

Dear Mr. Cunningham,

As promised I am sending you a couloured photograph of my Polonaise carpet with fringe shown on one side only. You will find the hystory of ownership on attached leaflet, while I am giving you here the exact measurements, as required.
LENGTH: 4 m. and 17 cm.
WIDTH: 1 m. and 81 cm.
FRINGE: 16 cm. each side

The price I amasking for the carpet is $50,000. (fifty-thousand dollars) inclusive of 20% commission to whom arranges the sale. In other words I am prepared to take $40,000 for myself net.

The valuation made in London in 1936 by Christie and confirmed by both the late Sir Ronald Graham and by the then Director the of British Museum was 10/20,000 pounds that in these days corresponds to 50/60,000 gold Dollars.  Should you be coming to Rome or Milan please let me know as it would give me great pleasure to show you my country house near Milan where I shall be from July 30th to end of September. I am giving you the address:

"GERNETTO"
          [[underline]] LESMO [[/underline]]
(MILANO)        ^[[(]](P.T.O.^[[)]

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Telephone: Vimercate 7810

Yours very sincerely,

Claudia Petrisi

[[underline]] History of ownership [[/underline]]:

The two Polonaise silk carpets in the possession of the Doria family were a gift of the then King of Poland to Cardinal Pamphilj, afterwards Pope Innocent X (Sept 13th 1644)

Cardinal Pamphilj gave the two carpets to his sister, Olympia Pamphilj, and with the extinction of the Pamphilj family in 1760, they passed into the Doria family together with the rest of the Pamphilj property.

At the death of Prince Filippo Doria (March 19, 1876) one of the two carpets went to his eldest daughter Teresa, Duchess Massimo; the other one to his second daughter Guendoline(?), Countess della Samaglia, my [[underline]] grandmother [[/underline]]. The one belonging to Duchess Massimo was sold in 1919 to Lord Duveen who more or less at the same time bought the two Polonaise carpets belonging to the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon. After my grandmother's ^[[and my father's]] death, the surviving carpet became and is my property.