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THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 14627

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AND                                 
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

December 2nd,1965 

Dear Mr. Seligman;

thank you very much for your kind letter. You are quite right: it is time consuming to settle down in a new city and my new job absorbes me. However, I do hope to be able to drop in during the Christmas vacation for we shall all go down to New York to pass the holyday with my family in New York. I also hope to look about the galleries again. One thing Rochester does not have is art which delights me.

You may be glad to hear that the Rococo article has been accepted by a learned journal edited in Geneva. I don't know whether the art historians ever look at it, but when the article comes out I'll send off prints to the Gazette and the Art Quarterly, they can then print the title in their articles received section. There have recently been published two articles by a man named Carr in the even more obscure journal called Forum for Modern Languages, a Scottish publication; these articles are on the word Baroque and Rococo, and both quite good, though rather different from what I attempted since they are really histories of the word rather than criticisms of it. 

As you can see from my stationary I am back teaching literature; however I will probably teach one course in French painting next year. 

Looking forward to dropping in, I am

sincerely yours,

R.G Saisselin
R.G. Saisselin