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JACQUES SELIGMANN & CO., INC.,
5 East 57th. Street, N.Y.22, N.Y.
December 9th., 1943.

Dear Colin Agnew:

It was a great pleasure indeed, to receive your longhand letter of September 30th.  However it reached me with considerable delay, and a couple of trips I had to take explains why you haven't heard from me.

Two days ago I received your cable with its inquiry and immediately rushed to see Mrs. George Richter, and have just cabled you that I have seen the TITIAN.  It is indeed a very lovely painting, but it isn't quite what I am looking for.  I will bear it in mind nevertheless, and should I have a request for a portrait of this type, I shall make the necessary arrangements with Mrs. Richter.

From the conversation I have had with her, I feel that she has some very good prospects in mind, and it would indeed be a mistake to take the portrait away from her at the present moment.  It is therefore, only in case I feel I have a very definite chance of selling it that I shall ask her to let me have it for a little while.  I had never met Mrs. Richter until this morning, though of course I had known her husband for a great many years, and I was impressed with her acumen.

Having just come back from Chicago, I won't write any more to you today, but shall do so in the very near future, explaining to you then in greater detail what I am really looking for and in which, I hope, we will be able to cooperate.

With the Season's Greetings, and best regards,

Sincerely yours,

(Germain Séligmann)

Colin Agnew, Esq.,
43 Old Bond Street,
London, w.l,
ENGLAND.