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THE ASIA INSTITUTE
The School For Asiatic Studies [[dot]] The Institute of Asiatic Economics [[dot]] The Iranian Institute [[dot]] The India Institute

7 EAST 70th STREET [[dot]] NEW YORK 21, N.Y. [[dot]] REgent 7-7400
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December 11, 1947
(My time having apparently stopped to catch its breath after having made a leap)

Dear Germain

I will come in to see the gold-woven Davids, with great pleasure, as soon as Arthur is off for India; until then, minutes are crowded and confused. I am not by any means restricted to the "Gothic" period, and less so, the older I grow, for catholicity, without, I hope, loss of discrimination is an attribute of maturity, is it not? I have even developed a passion for fine French 18th century, about which we used to dispute a bit warmly. In short, I agree with K. Clark who said, more or less:"D^[[i]]scrimination consists, not in elimination, but in justly distributed appreciation."

Nor have I, by any means, been wholly neglecting tapestries. You perhaps saw my article on one in the Providence Year Book; the article in Gazette des Beaux Arts, some months back; I have another coming out in the Quarterly edited from the Detroit Museum; and have provided an entirely new article from the next edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as the condensed statement for the Art Encyclopedia which came out about a year or so ago. I still hope to the book on the fourteenth and fifteenth centur^[[ies]] which I was already working on in the days when you gave me d^[[e]]licious lunches and dinners in Paris.

Meanwhile on January 15 I am talking to the Needle and Bobbin Club on the Apocalypse, and in February am taking them for a guided tour of the French tapestry exhibition at the Metropolitan. So you see^[[,]] art historically I am Dr. Jekyll, and Mrs. Hyde.

Best regards,
^[[Phyllis]]

M. Germain Seligman
5 East 57th Street
New York 22