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2704 LAKE VIEW AVENUE
CHICAGO
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February 1st. 1944.

Dear Mr.Seligmann;

I am always apologizing for my late replies to your letters but these weeks seem to be the most congested of my rather foolishly congested life.

As to the price of the little Bonnard,we do not remember just what we paid for it and seem to have no record. Since,however,it is you who wish to buy rather than we who wish to sell,we must ask you to make an offer for it rather than for us to set a price.

I realize that this is a difficult time to put a value on pictures but you have a much better opportunity to judge the market than we have. Just now and for some years past we have been buying nothing,therefore have not experience to go on. But neither have we been selling anything so are equally ignorant from that point of view. The prices you quote for your Bonnard aquisitions leave a wide range, more confusing to us,I should think,than to you who keep close track of what goes on in the picture world.

Very sincerely yours
[[signature]] Kate L. Brewster. [[/signature]]

Mrs. Walter S.Brewster