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BOSWELL-FRANKEL
Advertising Service
49 WEST FORTY-FIFTH STREET
NEW YORK

PEYTON BOSWELL
S.W. FRANKEL
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December 13, 1924.

Mr. Germain Seligmann,
Jacques Seligmann & Co.,
705 Fifth Ave.,
New York City.

Dear Mr. Seligmann:

You are undoubtedly aware of the friendly relations that existed between your father and myself for twelve years. He honored me with his friendship, and I reciprocated in every way that I could when I was on the staff of the New York Herald and later when I became editor of The Art News and of International Studio. I had thought that these relations survived his death and still existed with his business successor.

I was inexpressibly shocked this morning when, on opening the newspapers, I found you had started an advertising campaign of considerable proportions and that you had displaced the Boswell-Frankel Agency with a rival -- a concern which has always been trying to take what business it could from us.

This is inexplicable to me, and seems grossly unfair and unjust; and I have no choice but to think that the former relations between your firm and me have come to an end. For this, no blame attaches to me.

Sincerely,
[[signed]]Peyton Boswell[[/signed]]

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TELEPHONE: BRYant 9352
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