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Paris, August 12th, 1932

My dear Mr. Bradley,

I am just in receipt of you letter of the 4th inst., and I wish to thank you for your kindness in speaking to Mr. John Sanford about the portrait of "Sergeant Murphy".

As a matter of fact, immediately after I had written you about this picture, I thought of Mr. Sanford, but I did not communicate with him because having written you and given you the first refusal of it, I did not want to speak to any one else about it until I had received your reply.

Now it has just occurred to me that I forgot to mention in the description I gave you of this picture, that Mr. Laddy Sanford is shown in the picture together with the trainer Blackwell.  It would therefore make a [[underline]] most interesting [[underline]] acquisition for the Sanford family.

I just want to mention however that the painting has not been actually "placed on the market", as you write, because it happens to belong to one of our clients in London, who recently inherited it, and he asked us to dispose of it for him privately, solely because he was not personally interested in the subject. 

Taking this opportunity to again thank you for your kindness in this matter, and trusting you are keeping in good health, and having a pleasant summer, 
Believe me to be,
Yours sincerely,


P.S. In view of your kind efforts, I am not communicating directly with Mr. Sanford.
Mr. E.R. Bradley. SARATOGA SPRINGS. N.Y.