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THE SENATE
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CANADA

Ottawa,
March Fourteenth,
1936.

Dear Sirs,-

Please accept my thanks for the photo of the Renoir.  Of course, one cannot properly begin to judge such a picture from a photo, but I think the subject as a Renoir would not appeal to me.  If some day I should buy one of this master's pictures, it will be because it has a very strong personal appeal.  There was one on exhibition here at the Show held two years ago which Euler of Amsterdam had - a small picture about twelve by fourteen of a bathing girl, which was about my ideal of a Renoir so far as my desire goes, with the added quality of its being a small one.  I felt at the time it was too expensive, but now I know that I lost one of the finest small pictures in the world.

I am afraid the "Apple Seller" would be quite beyond my capacity to take on, although I am sure it must be something very fine.

I will see if there isn't some way of permitting this picture to come into Canada for inspection so that if you should be coming in this direction you might bring it in without the excise or sales tax.  I shall let you know on this point very shortly. 

Messrs. James Seligmann & Co.Inc.,
3 East 51st Street,
NEW YORK, N.Y., U.S.A.