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[[underline]] TRANSLATION OF LETTER WRITTEN IN FRENCH [[/underline]]

18 Engle Street
Tenafly, N. J.

August 24, 1943.

Mr. Georges Eligmann
Whiteface Inn
Lake Placid, N. Y.

[[underline]] Extra special delivery [[/underline]]

Dear Sir:

First paragraph:  ditto, ditto.

I regret not to agree with you since you do not agree with yourself in accordance with your sweet custom.

If I had been willing to buy the tapestry from your firm, it would have quoted me a price at which it might or might not have been willing to let it go, while you spent your time telling me that it was the "owners of the tapestry" who would not accept less than $6,000.

This being the case, I am sending my check No.145 in the sum of $6,000. to the order of Benjamin, Galton & Robbins, 21 East 40th Street, and my check No.146 in the sum of $300. in favor of Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc.

I am a man of sixed belief, and once convinced it is difficult to change my mind as a client.

Decidedly, and I must say, personally, you are a charming fellow, your firm has strange business methods and its procedures show me how right I was to have nothing to do with them in Paris.

Will you kindly acknowledge receipt of the two checks, and in the future, unless it is personally, do not offer me anything in the name of your firm because your interpretation of the incident of the "soup tureen" will always differ from mine, and the future will presumably bring other "soup tureens".

One asks oneself the futile question whether in the future another unknown version in this reference might turn up, even thinking of the Museum Director reputedly interested in the tapestry.

(signed) CASSEL

:MC
Two enclosures: checks