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69 Highview Gardens, Edgware, Middx.
at present Crans s/Sierre
17. 9. 56.

Dear Mr. Seligmann, 

your letter of Sept. 5th reaches me during a very pleasant holiday in Switzerland. I had the intention, to write to you from Edgware, where I shall be at the end of the month.

I had an offprint from Jacques Mathey of an article on early works by Watteau, which you will find in "Art Quarterly", Spring 1956. There, on page 27, you will see, that he mentions the small picture, "Le Militaire", as my property.

When Matheys and Parkers book on the drawings by Watteau will be out this year, the world will be astonished, what the early Watteau looks like (in a way like the early Rembrandt), and the many unbelievers, who now blame Mathey, will be silenced. 

Yours sincerely,

Edmund Schilling