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[[underline]]BIG NEWS!![[underline/]]:  I might be able to obtain for sale the small ROSSELLINO bust of the Morgan Library, but please, this is [[underlined]]very confidential[[/underlined]].  As I know how anxious you and Paul Gardner are to own a full, round, sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, I think that this little jewel would be an ideal purchase for your museum.

Of course, I have no price yet, and there is nothing definite, I repeat, but I vaguely fathom that the price would be around One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.). Do you think that the museum could finance this, without upsetting your present plan of purchases? That is certainly the last thing I want to do,"et pour cause"!

On the other hand, the Morgan pictures - from what I hear - are selling "like hot cakes", so that should you want to do anything with it, it would be urgent for you to take immediate steps and for me to find out whether installment payments would be agreeable to the owner.

Looking forward to hearing from you, and with my very best regards,

Yours very sincerely,


(Germain Séligmann)

Harold Woodbury Parsons, Esq.,
345 Marlborough Street,
Boston, Mass.