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[[preprinted]]
NEW YORK SHOWROOMS
30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA
ROCKEFELLER CENTER

AMERICAN LEAD PENCIL COMPANY
[[image - drawing of a pencil]]

ASSOCIATED COMPANIES
LONDON - VENUS PENCIL CO., LIMITED
PARIS - SOCIÉTÉ DU CRAYON VENUS
TORONTO - VENUS PENCIL COMPANY, LTD.

ADDRESS REPLY TO
HOBOKEN, N.J. U.S.A. [[/preprinted]]

December 23rd, 1938.

Mr. R. Levy,    ^[[RL]]
Jacques Seligmann & Co.
3 East 51st Street,
New York City.

Dear Mr. Levy:-

I sincerely appreciate the courtesy which you extended to me the other evening.  I believe that four of the pencil drawings which you showed me would receive an enthusiastic audience among the artists, heads of art departments and art students who read our advertisements.

These four are:-

Ingres - "Le Competess du Marcellus"
Toulouse Lautrec - "Musician"
Degas - "Study of a Cavalier"
R. De La Fresnaye - "Meditiation"

If agreeable to you, I would like to have Mr. F.P. Baldwin of our advertising agency (O'Dea, Sheldon & Canaday) come over at your convenience, with a photographer and photograph these drawings in actual size.  These will then be reproduced, with a proper courtesy line to the Jacques Seligmann Galleries, along the lines of the enclosed advertisements which we have run in the past.

It has been a source of real pleasure to me to see the fine response which the reproduction of these Mater Pencil Drawings has received from people in all walks of life and your cooperation in furthering our endeavor is really welcomed.

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