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Hotel Victoria
   Bush and Stockton Sts.,
      San Francisco, Calif.
         December 28th, 1923.

Mr. Germain Seligmann,
  5th Ave. at 56th St.,
    New York City.

Dear Mr. Seligmann,

I had delayed writing to you only because I had been carefully considering just what would be the best way for you to come out here to California.  Inasmuch as the museum is very much up in the air, I think you should not count on any relation to its opening at all in your programme, but should rather plan to be here the last week in January, and the first in February, or somewhere about that time.

You suggested that you might, however, come hands in pockets, as it were, on a purely social trip, or with a few fine things.  I think there is no necessary alternative between the two programmes, but rather that you should combine both of these ideas.  That is to say, come out in a casual holiday mood and meet people socially and incidentally as much as possible, but have with you as ammunition a half dozen superb things to be shown when the opportunity arises.

I doubt very much whether you will sell any one of those things well out here, but they are an excellent specific illustration of what you represent.  I should say that they should be divided equally between the Gothic period and the 18th century, for there are out here quite a number of people who care for that later period.  I would suggest bringing one Limoges enamel.  The only pieces of Limoges out here that I know are in the collection of Mrs. William H. Crocker, but it is the kind of objet d'art which might well fit into otherwise too much furnished homes.

I would finally remind you what you probably already know; ; that the Ehrmans still need a tapestry for their hall, a small piece to give color to a grey stone entrance, a piece that cannot be more than six feet wide, and should preferably be about five or six feet high, a difficult size, I know, but not impossible.

Do let us know in advance just when you are going to be here so that we won't by any chance be out of town.  All good wishes to you in your new responsibilities in carrying on the business without your father's aid, and best luck for the coming year.

Sincerely,

^[[Phyllis Ackerman]]
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