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PORTOVAULT SERVICE
Day & Meyer
Murray & Young,Inc.
SECOND AVENUE AT 61ST STREET
NEW YORK
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July seventeenth 1928

[[stamped]] JUL 18 28 [[/stamped]]
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Jacques Seligmann & Co., 
3 East 51st street,
New York City.

Gentlemen:

Upon my return to the city, I find your letter of the 21st ultimo relative to certain damages to marble tops which we packed and shipped to Paris under date of April 26th.

I do not feel as though these marbles were broken through faulty packing as they were all packed separately and embedded in excelsior. The excelsior was dampened and tightened about them and they were properly braced in the case so they could not shift. This case was then embedded in excelsior and again cased. The only way that I can see that these marbles arrived damaged, is that they must have had extremely rough handling or a fall in the unloading enroute. 

We have been packing marbles and art goods for a great number of years and this is the first time in our experience where we have had all the marbles broken in one shipment. We pack property of this nature at all times, and we would be glad to have one of your representatives call at our packing department and see the method we use in our packing, and you can see then how it is impossible for anything to arrive damaged if it had been properly handled enroute. 

We regret exceedingly that this damage occurred but we do not feel as though it was through any fault of ours as we had used every care and precaution in packing them. 

Yours very truly,

DAY & MEYER,
MURRAY & YOUNG, Inc.
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