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SPECIAL DELIVERY.

August 3rd., 1943.

Dear Mrs. Pratt:

I was truly distressed this morning, to hear that you had met with such a bad accident, and may I express the hope that ere long you will be all right again.

Since I spoke to Miss Williams, I have been in touch with my client, to whom I have explained the situation and whom I told that you had no particular desire to part with the painting by COSINO TURA, "Virgin and Child", but that in the face of a very tempting offer you might change your mind.  He is very reluctant to make such an offer, but wished me to convey to you that in view of the interest he has in this painting, he might be willing to "top" an offer made by some other party.

It is on his behalf therefore that I am sending you these lines, so that should you be in a position to receive me tomorrow, before I leave for my vacation, we might be able to reach a mutually satisfactory agreement, and may I therefore take the liberty of calling up Miss Williams in the morning?

Yours very sincerely,

(Germain Séligmann)

Mrs. Harold I. Pratt,
635 Park Ave,
New York, New York.

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Cosimo Tura