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July 27th, 1933.

D. Moore, Esq.,
c/o Traxel Galleries,
Carew Tower,
Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dear Mr. Moore:

In answer to your letter of the 25th inst., inasmuch as you ask me to recommend you a [[underlined]] particularly [[/underlined]] good children's portrait painter, I would without hesitation recommend Harington Mann, who is undoubtedly the greatest living painter of children.

Mr. Mann, who is an Englishman, has a studio in New York, as he lives over here 4 or 5 months every year and has been doing so for the last twenty years.  He comes form the so-called Glasgow School and has painted numerous portraits of well known Americans, including children of the following families:

J. Pierpont Morgan
P.A. B. Widener
Childs Frick, Jr.
William Ziegler
and many of the DuPont family of Wilmington

He is likewise a very fine painter of adults and last year he had the honor to paint a portrait of King George for the Army & Navy Club in London.  Several years ago he painted young Julius Fleischmann in hunting outfit, which commission was done at my recommendation. I am mentioning this because, although it is not a child's portrait, your clients can possibly see it as it will give them a very good idea of Harrington Mann's technique and style of painting.

I am sorry, however, that Mr. Mann has recently returned to London but he will be back here early in the Fall, so that if your clients are not too much in a hurry, I would strongly advise them to wait until then, because if Harrington Mann painted them, they would have something really worthwhile.  If, however, they are in a hurry to have this portrait done, I would be pleased to recommend someone else upon hearing from you again.

In the meanwhile, I am writing to Harrington Mann in London to find out exactly when he will be back in his New York Studio, and I will let you know his reply in due course.

In the meanwhile.......