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Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc. 
July 13, 1944
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My main concern, or any of my concerns, if any, has never in any way had anything to do with the fact that your firm should or should not make a [underlined] profit [/underlined] in view of the fact that I never could imagine your firm as making a profit on merchandise entrusted to it for sale.

The only advantage I ever conceived your firm could derive from the transaction was its Agent's commission of $300.00, agreed upon.

No attempts at creating a confusion between the words "profit" and the words "legitimate commission" should therefore be made, at this date.

In spite of all your references to the spirit of various letters and to your good faith, which up till the time I discovered the truth, I had not questioned, even in my own mind, the fact remains that a subterfuge was used in order not only to induce me to buy the tapestry, which was your property, but also to induce me to pay you an Agent's commission, whereas in reality such an Agency was only a fiction, created by you, for your own purpose of selling the tapestry.

I think that I have sufficiently explained to you, both in my letter of March 4th, 1944 and in my subsequent conversations with you, what I thought of such methods of doing business, and it only remains, therefore, for me to state, today, that I have bought the tapestry from its owners, that I have paid the latter the price agreed upon, that I do not intend to rescind the transaction, and that I do not consider any commission is due by me to any firm having represented itself as having acted as my Agents in the matter, whereas such Agency never existed.

That being so, kindly supply me, by return, with the true pedigree of the tapestry, as promised by your telegram of August 10th 1943, and send me a receipted bill, in full discharge for the price of this tapestry, which I have paid you for, failing which I shall reluctantly be obliged to ask my Counsels to obtain a proper legal Release from you. 

Should I be obliged, by you, to take this course, I would reluctantly feel compelled, however, to instruct my Counsels to take this matter to the proper Courts, in view of the way the transaction was carried out by you.

Incidentally, the restorations which you pointed out to me were only the obvious part of those that existed and are still to be found in the tapestry. I pointed out to you the others. 

Yours very truly, 

[[signature]] Cassel [[/signature]]
Baron Cassel van Doorn. 

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