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January 14th, 1938

Dear Mrs. Baker:

We received this morning the visit of Mr. F. Lammot Belin a friend of the firm, who informed us that he is getting together an exhibition of children's portraits to be held at the Metropolitan Club in Washington, D.C.

On the Board of this exhibition, besides himself, will be Mr. David Finley, former assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Andrew Mellon, and a number of other prominent residents of Washington.

I immediately remembered the two most charming small children's portraits that I had seen in the library of your house years ago, and I wonder, should you be at all inclined to lend them to the exhibition in Washington, whether you would allow me to come up to the house one day next week and look at them again. It has been so long since I saw these two pictures that I only vaguely remember at which age they were painted and who the artist was which, if I am not mistaken, I believe to be Romney.

t.s.v.p.