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✔ RS:SM April 28th, 1934. Lewis Mumford, Esq., The New Yorker, 25 West 45th Street, New York City. My dear Mr. Mumford: We are opening on the second of may an exhibition of the recent portraits made in this country by Miss Maria de Kammerer, the well known Hungarian artist. Miss de Kammerer, whose name might be familiar to you on account of the fact that she has shown here before, has had a great deal of success in England where she painted the portraits of members of the Rothschild family and members of the British Aristocracy such as; Lord Montegue Douglas Sir Malcolm Mcgregor Barnet The Princess de Chimay Lady Betty Manners The Duchess of Buccleuch The Duke of Montrose etc. Since she has been in this country she has painted; Mrs. Dorothy Ledyard Wright Mrs. Felix Warburg Mrs. Henry Holt's child Mrs. Henry Seigbert's children Mr. John Schiff Mrs. Richard Hoyt etc. The exhibition will show the following portraits which are her recent works. Mrs. Maurice Hecksher Mrs. C. W. Young Mr. C. W. Young Mr. Arthur Lehman Mrs. Simon Guggenhim t.s.v.p.