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[[preprinted]] BOSWELL-FRANKEL Advertising Service 49 WEST FORTY-FIFTH STREET NEW YORK PEYTON BOSWELL S.W. FRANKEL [[image: logo, oval with lower case bf centered within]] [[/preprinted]] ^[[checkmark]] ^[[GS]] 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]] [[preprinted]] TELEPHONE: BRYant 9352 [[/preprinted]]