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[[preprinted]] TELEPHONE VOLUNTEER 5-3571 FOUNDED 1926

The ART DIGEST [[underlined]] ^[[Rh.]] [[/underlined]]

THE INDISPENSABLE NEWS-MAGAZINE OF ART

<< 116 EAST FIFTY-NINTH STREET 
NEW YORK CITY [[/preprinted]]

February 20, 1936.

Jacques Seligmann & Co.,
3 East 51st Street,
New York City. [[underlined]] Attention of Mr. Levy and [[/underlined]] [[double underlined]] Mrs. Parker. [[/double underlined]]

Gentlemen:

The Art Digest is having its best year since 1929.

It has tried hard to give the art collectors of the country a magazine that presents, without bias, the "news and opinion of the art world". The response has taken the form of a mandate from the art world that this original policy be continued.

Today, The Art Digest's circulation is given in a sworn statement in Standard Rate & Data Service as 10,625 on an average, per issue, for the last six months of 1935.

The Art Digest's policy remains the same; its clean methods do not change. It does not flop this way and flop that way in order at one time to please the advertiser, at another time the reader. The wisdom of this honesty has been proved: it breathed the breath of life into the magazine at the very beginning, and make it so strong that the depression could not kill it nor even check its growth.

For years, art dealers have been inclined to regard advertising as something they had to do--out of friendship, or because they feared a boycott of their news if they failed to do so. The Art Digest for the past nine years have sought to dispel this fear. The magazine has always invited dealers to submit their news whether they advertised or not--and always without charge to them.

Your support is needED to help the magazine fulfill its purpose. At the same time your advertisement will represent you where it counts in the art world. We ask you to appropriate a sum to be used for advertising in every issue of The Art Digest. Enclosed is a sheet of sampled sizes with prices. The prices are for one insertion and for yearly contracts. The amount of the monthly payments for each size is given.

Won't you send your order and copy today? The magazine needs you now.

^[[P. S. This seems to be a combination letter. However, we think it will interest both of you.]] Sincerely,
[[signed]] Joseph [[Luyber?]][[/signed]]
Advertising Manager.