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Mr R.S.
CT

GUSTAVUS TOWN KIRBY
THIRTY-SIX EAST FIFTY SEVENTH STREET
NEW YORK CITY

Tuesday 
March the nineteenth
1935

Jacques Seligman & Co., Inc.
3 East 51st Street
New York City

Dear Sirs:

My father, the late Thomas E. Kirby, acquired considerable artistic and historic property of moment. Some of this property is now offered for sale. It includes:

Charles Wilson Peale's Life Portrait of George Washington at the Battle of Princeton
Rodin's marble figure of Eve
AChinese peachbloom vase of the highest quality
A Chinese bronze sacrificial vessel of the XII Century
A wax bas-relief Life Portrait of George Washington by Joseph Wright
A French clock supporting a reclining figure of Venus
A blue tapestry

The Washington is now in the Fine Arts Gallery of Yale University at New Haven. It was placed there in the hope that some loyal alumnus would purchase the same and present it to the University. On page 28 of Portraits of George Washington by John Hill Morgan and Mantel Fielding, will be found a description of the