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"YE LITTLE ART SHOP" 

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Salem, N.J. Feb. 20th 1928.

Jacques Seligman & Co., 
3 East Fifty-first Street,
New York

Gentlemen:

Art critics have been quite active of late with reference to an oil painting in my collection, which is on a canvas 25 X 30 and [[underlined]] not a copy [[/underlined]].

The subject is a young lady attired as a lady of one hundred and fifty years ago and very beautiful. The canvas is of linen and home spun.

The portrait evidently hung in either the Mr. Rider collection or that of the Harrington Fitzgerald of Phila., Pa. for I am in touch with Mr. S. C. Magarvey of that city who is now an old man and he informs me that his father had charge of both collections, regilding, framing and keeping them in condition. 

Both collections having been depleted years ago.

Mr. Magarvey is getting the data for me, but we all feel rather safe in saying it was printed by Sir Joshua Reynolds and about 1750.

Now if you are interested, I will be very glad to have your representative come to Salem and I will be pleased to take it from the vault of the bank and let you see it.

Thank you, I am

                Very truly yours,
                   Warren T. Sparks,
                     206 East Broadway,
                         Salem, N.J.