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February 28th 1924

Stephan Bougeois, Esq.,
693 Fifth Avenue
New York

My dear Mr. Bourgeois,-

I am sending you herewith photograph of the beautiful marble group which you saw this morning at our galleries.

This group comes from the private chapel of the Count Bonifacio, in Milan.  My uncle bought it in Austria, and he told me that someone to whom he had showed it said that it was the work of one of the family of Cosma.  As my uncle was a great friend of Dr. Planiczek, I think it is probably Dr. Planiczek who gave him this information.  On the other hand, Italian art critics, among whom Dr. Da Nicola, Curator of the Bargello Museum, owing to the strong relationship between this group and some of the works in Sienna and Pisa, ascribe it to a pupil of Arnolfo di Cambio.

The height is 35 1/2" and the width at the base 18". The inscription on the book reads as follows:

Contin et ingermio celum terramque regente 
Virgo dei Genitrix 1321.

Looking forward to seeing you some time in the near future, I beg you to believe me,

Yours sincerely,