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Vandyck Galleries Inc.

1611 Connecticut Avenue
Washington
North 151
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May 14th., 1925.

Rene Seligmann, Esq.,
705 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.

Dear Mr. Seligmann:-
  
It was very nice to receive your letter of the eleventh, and I appreciate your thought in writing me at this buy time just when you are preparing to sail.
  
Things have been excessively quiet with us, so much so in fact, that we have decided to discontinue the Vandyck Galleries as such, after this season. We have sub-let our rooms and we believe, gotten rid of a white elephant. They were well adapted for galleries but being on the second floor, failed to attract the public as they would have if better situated on the ground floor.
 
I plan in the Fall to re-establish myself in a building which is now under consideration, where-in we will have a first floor and a top-floor with private elevator thereto, where we will have a sky-lighted gallery.
  
In the meantime, you may count on my sending any client to you in Paris, and in fact to endeavor to co-operate with you and your firm whenever possible. I realize that they could not be in better hands, so shall advise my friends to call on you.
  
Will you be good enough to remember me most kindly to your cousin  in Paris, whose courtesy to me last year I recall with pleasure. And, perhaps a parting word of advice to you will not be amiss...now that you are going back among your beautiful countrywomen....do not wait too long to make your decision.
    
Very sincerely yours,
[[signature]] John J Cunningham Jr [[/signature]]