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M       GS/TP

February 14th, 1933.

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Dear Mr. Kelley:

I did not answer your lines of January 17th., for which I thank you, as I have been hoping to go to Philadelphia, and to see you then.

As I haven't taken this trip I thought of writing you - the more so you wrote that the Gs would be back about February 2nd., and I trust, therefore, that they are now in your city.

Some time ago in one of your letters you said there would be room in their hall for two landscapes, which should be 30" or 32" high by 36" or 38" in width. We have here a pair of paintings (I do not know whether you remember them, but they are the Pillements which we had at your exhibition last year) which have these very dimensions, as they are 26-1/2" by 38" without their frames - so that with their frames they measure 35" by 46-1/2". As you may recall, their price is very reasonable, the pair being $6400. Do you think you could do anything with them at present? The change of administration is soon going to be a thing of the past and an entirely different state of mind should then prevail.

You write further in your letter of January 17th., that you are under the impression that at a certain price one could sell the Gs the portrait of Lady Lovat, by Lawrence. Have you and particular reason for believing so? have you had an opportunity of mentioning this picture to Mrs. G. and did she react favorably to the idea?

How about the other prospects you had in mind at the beginning of the season - do you see anything further to do with them on which we might co-operate?

If you come to New York do drop in here so that we can talk things over.

Trusting that these lines will find you in good health,

Believe me to be,
Yours very sincerely, 
(Germain Séligmann) 

George E. Kelley, Esq.,
McClees Galleries, 
1615 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, Penna.