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[[preprinted]] COMMONWEALTH 2132 CABLE: CASTANO ^[[checkmark]] GIOVANNI CASTANO 171 NEWBURY STREET BOSTON, MASS. PAINTINGS [[/preprinted]] [[underlined]] ^[[RL.]] [[/underlined]] February 11, 1938 Mr. Robert M. Levy Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc. 3 East 51st Street New York City Dear Mr. Levy: I want to thank you very kindly for showing me your fine pictures. I would like to have you send me photographs of the Degas paintings and also whatever information you have on them together with prices. I would like very much to have some nice Italian pictures, perhaps out side of the Catena and the Bellini you have. I personally like the Catena, and I would like very much to have the Tiepolo Madonna and Child. Naturally, I shall pay for the transportation of these. I shall have my truckman, Mr. Stone, pick them up for me. He had a well-padded truck for paintings and is reliable. You need not crate them. I expect to have the exhibit through the month of March, or a little later after the first of March for a month. I am having the galleries beautifully decorated for this occasion. I shall have some of the finest Italian Renaissance paintings in Boston for the opening exhibit. Mr. Cunningham of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is co-operating with me on this, and many of the notable families here who are my clients. So I don't want any mediocre pictures. With kindest regards, I am Sincerely, [[signed]] G. Castano [[/signed]] G. Castano GC:MB
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