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June 21st., 1943.

Dear Professor Shapiro:

Writing to you today about a SEURAT drawing I have just purchased, makes me realize that to my regret you haven't kept your promise of dropping in, as you wrote me you would a few months ago.  I am blaming it on your teaching activities at Columbia.

Herein you will find the photograph of this new drawing, which I feel sure you will be greatly interested in, in view of its masterful qualities and also the subject, which is unusual in Seurat's "oeuvre".

Can you connect it with any other work of his - painting or drawing?

It may, in fact, already be known to you, as originally it came from the famous Sullivan Collection.

With personal regards,

Yours very sincerely,

(Germain Seligmann)

Prof. Meyer S^[[c]]hapiro
279 West 4th. Street,
New York, New York.