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Dear Genevieve,

     Please excuse my not writing you this letter in long hand, but as it more or less refers to a business matter, I am taking the liberty of sending you this typewritten.

     Now, I have been thinking over your offer of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) for the two PANINI's and under existing conditions, I have decided to accept it, if this is quite satisfactory to you.  Please bear in mind, however, that you must not take this large reduction as a precedent, but I am not only doing it because I am very anxious to start doing business with you and Walter, and also because these PANINI's go in so admirably in your dining room.

     For your information, paintings of this type have gone up tremendously in value in the last year, but we bought them just before this rise took place and that is one of the reasons I am able to meet you in price.  I just want to tell you that there is very little profit in this transaction for us, but, as I said before, I am particularly anxious to do this business with you, all the more so, because Walter told me yesterday that he thought they looked so well and that you and everybody liked them.

     I also want to tell you that should you