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P. & D. COLNAGHI & CO LTD
(ESTABLISHED 1760)

TELEGRAMS: COLNAGHI, PICCY, LONDON.
TELEPHONE: HYDE PARK 1943.
DIRECTORS
J.J. BYAM SHAW, M.A.
H.J.L. WRIGHT, M.A.
D.C.T. BASKETT
R.Q. HENRIQUES
R.M.D. THESIGER

14 OLD BOND STREET,
LONDON, W. 1.
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Apr. 10 1958

Dear Mr. Seligman,

Thank you very much for your letter of Apr. 4.  I am also planning a sort of souvenir volume for this firm for our bicentenary year 1960, and in this connexion had thought of the fine Raphael drawing, as you did.

Now in this case we should, I am sure, have given you the priority, since it was you who first drew my attention to the drawing, which we should otherwise have missed altogether.  But before I had your letter or knew of your wish to reproduce the drawing, I had come to the conclusion that it might be unwise for us to reproduce it in such a publication, and I cannot help feeling that this applies also in your case.

The buyer was a private English land-owner in Wiltshire (Major Christie-Miller), who has some very fine things by inheritance, and has bought a few fine drawings since the war, rather with a view to lock-up investments for his children.  Now I did explain to him before he bought the drawing that Pouncey at the BM made some reservations about the attribution to R. himself - but he