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709 TRIPHAMMER ROAD
ITHACA, NEW YORK

February 26, 1962.

My dear Mr. Seligmann:

This note is to express my delight on reading Brian O'Doherty's article in the NY TIMES Book Review, announcing your "Merchants of Art." How well I remember your Mother, and the fine seated marble figure of your Father placed in the Palais de Sagan. Through our mutual Friend, Mr. Max Pam, of Chicago, you extended to me the courtesy of exhibiting my few bronze portraits in your Paris and your New York City Galleries. Under such auspices how could I fail to move forward in my pursuit of "history makers"!

You may recall that I became very ill after modeling Primo De Rivera, Madrid 1925. The bronze is now in the War College in that city. Having survived polio when a child, I was forced to give up over-taxing commissions for less strenuous commitments.

The late Mary Beard, wife of Professor Charles Beard, both historians, asked me to become Chairman of a Sculptors Committee in her organization working for a National Women's Archives to be erected in Washington, D.C. The World War II dismissed that dream. She divided her papers between the Smith College Archives and the Archives of Radcliffe College. By request I followed that idea by sending much source material to Mrs. Margaret Storrs Grierson, Archivist of the Sophia Smith Collection. She is a cousin of the late sculptor, John Storrs. He married, worked and lived in Paris. Mrs. Grierson was formerly a Professor of Greek History. 

Letters to me and a life mask of Ezra Pound I placed in the Poets Work Shop of the University of Buffalo: letters of his well-bred wife, Dorothy Shakespear, I sent to Mrs. Grierson - all sealed. I've deposited some other source material in the Tennessee State Historical Library at Nashville, where I was born. Also I sent material to Harvard's de Bosisana. 

Critic O'Doherty's line, quote, "Germain Seligmann who was trained by his Father as if for some Athletic Olympics" is well put. By the way, my