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CT:EP 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.......