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DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH
12 WEST EIGHTH STREET
NEW YORK CITY

April 24th, 1926

Frabj V, Duveneck, Esq.
President.
Pacific Steam Motors Corp.,
1476 Pine Street
San Francisco, California

My dear Mr. Duveneck:

I am very glad to learn, through your letter of April 12th, that you are in sympathy with the idea of having a cast in bronze made from the plaster cast or the statue of your mother in the Metropolitan Museum.

I note that you think that we might secure a more accurate copy by using the original cast from which the bronze in the cemetery in Florence was made. I should naturally follow your opinion and wishes in this matter, of course, but if your father personally finished the marble statue, it seems to me that it would be as well to use the cast from the marble, as the one from the bronze. Certainly the cast that we have in the Metropolitan Museum is very fine.

Will you kindly let me hear from you in regard to this? I wish to repeat that this statue of your father's always gives me the greatest pleasure. It is a very beautiful and sensitive work of art. It makes one wish that your father had done more in sculpture.

Thanking you for your letter, I am 
Most truly yours,

David C. Piruuch