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RML:P

November 6th, 1930.

Dear Dean Pound,

I am taking the liberty of writing you on a matter which I think may interest you and also, incidentally, as a means of introducing myself.

To begin with, I am a Yale graduate and also did graduate work in Fine Arts at the Fogg Museum.  Recently I have become associated with Jacques Seligmann &Co., Inc.

I well remember that the Law School has a large and representative collection of portraits of the English and American Schools, of barristers, lawyers, judges, famous statesmen, and the like, and it has lately come to my ears that you are adding to your collection from time to time.  Consequently, I am writing you to inform you of two very fine pictures which we have and which I should think you would be very interested in acquiring.  One, a portrait of Sir Richard Barwell and his son,  by Sir Joshua Reynolds.  Barwell, you may know was born in Calcutta in 1741, worked with the East India Company, was later made a member of the Supreme Council, and subsequently was made Secretary to Warren Hastings.  The other, a portrait of John Clerk, afterwards, Lord Eldin, by Sir Henry Raeburn.  Clerk was born in 1757 and according to Greig, the portrait shows him in his 28th year, at the time he was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates, Edinbu^[[r]]gh. In 1806 he was Solicitor General to Scotland and seventeen years later he was appointed a Lord of the Sessions, assuming afterwards the title of Lord Eldin.

A great deal has been written about these pictures and I have on hand lengthy histories and documents concerning both of them, which would be much too long for me to include at this writing.  Should you be interested in obtaining this information, I would be only too glad to forward it to you, or better still, be delighted to have you call some time when you are in New York and show you the pictures in person.

Trusting I have not been too forward in writing you and hoping that I may be of some service, believe me to be

Very sincerely yours,

(R. M. Levy)

Dean Roscoe Pound,
Harvard Law School, 
Cambridge, Mass.