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Mr Roger Bernheim - 2
March 25, 1946

were being deposited.....

posited in a warehouse and no longer offered for sale. I further wrote to your father that as soon as he would have been able to obtain from the French Government the authorization to release the funds here, his account would be free.

In view of this and of your letter of March 18th, I suggest that you turn over [[underlined]] all [[/underlined]] the paintings which I am keeping in a warehouse for your father's account, to one given party here, and I feel that Jacques Helft would indeed be the right person to have them.

Will you thus instruct him to make an application for a license in order to obtain the whole group of paintings from my firm and I will be only too pleased - with the Treasury's permission - to turn them over to him.

As far as I am concerned, I do not wish to have any further correspondence with you, as I repeat I do not like your style and your threats. I do not feel under any sort of obligation to you and see no reason to authorize you to write to me the way you do.

Yours very truly,

(Germain Seligman)

Mr. Roger Bernheim
1 Rond Point Bugeaud XVI
Paris
France

P.S. I. I am sending a copy of this letter to Jacques Helft and to my brother.

II. Your father asked me a few days ago to send him some food packages and I shall be only too pleased to do so.