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D CT ES December 22, 1925

Mr. Thomas Donlon,
Birmingham, Mich.

Dear Mr. Donlon,

Having heard that you have been instrumental in placing a number of very fine paintings in certain Detroit homes, I am writing you this letter to call your attention to our firm, and also to tell you that Mr. Edwin H. Tompkins who happens to be an old personal friend of mine, has suggested to me that I get in touch with you.

You no doubt know our firm by reputation, as we have been established in Paris for nearly fifty years, and in New York for about thirty-five. Furthermore, we were the advisers to the late Mr. Pierpont Norgan, and we were responsible for bringing together the greater part of his collection of all kinds of Works of Art, besides being represented in many other private American collections and museums.

Our main establishment in Paris, the Palais Sagan, is one of the finest buildings of its kind in the world, and I am herewith enclosing you a pamphlet describing and illustrating it.

We have both in our Paris and New York branch, a very fine collection of all kinds of Works of Art, including Gothic sculpture and invoices; Limoges enamels; Italian Majolicas; Gothic and 18th Century tapestries; fine old French furniture and ornaments, and a very fine group of 17th Century Dutch and 18th Century English portraits, among the latter, is a very remarkable painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds which we have just acquired from a private collection in England. I showed this picture to Mr. Tompkins, and it is at his suggestion that I am writing you about it. It is another version of Lord Lansdowne's famous "Hope Nursing Love", but it is even finer in color than this picture which is so well known from its engraving by Bartolossi. I am herewith enclosing you a photograph of it, and besides this, we have a very fine pamphlet by W. Roberts fully describing and authenticating the picture.

The photograph, of course, conveys to you the composition, but one of the chief merits of this painting is its remarkable color quality; the bodice of the female figure being