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I have just seen a friend of mine who recently arrived from Paris. He is Mr. Rene Seligmann, a nephew of the late Jacques Seligmann, whom you surely know by name and reputation. In a conversational way, Mr. Seligmann tells me that he has been requested by a collector and a connoisseur, to sell in the United States a very remarkable objet d'art.

From what I understand, the late Mr. Pierpont Morgan had been some fifteen years ago most anxious to own this object, and had made, through the late Mr. Seligmann, a bona fide offer of $250.000. The owner refused to sell at any price.

This objet d'art is absolutely unique and I thought that you, as a collector, would like to have some interesting particulars about it.

I believe that it is Mr. Seligmann's intention to see Mr. Widener in regard to this object, and I have asked him to defer his trip to Philadelphia until I had a chance to acquaint you with this matter myself.

If you should be inclined, will you allow me to give Mr. Seligmann a few lines of introduction to you.