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New York, New York 10022

September 27, 1974

Dear Mr. Randall, 

Your most pleasant letter of September 26th for which I hasten to thank you, has just reached me. What a charming idea, a very moving one for me, you express in wishing to have my father's photograph exhibited at the time of the opening of the Walters Art Gallery's new wing. 

The only formal photograph I have of my father is of his portrait by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, of which I will have an 8 x 10" reproduction made. The otherssouvenirs I have of him are small snapshots which would not be in keeping with your plans. 

You mention the Paris "villa", and I assume you mean the Palais Sagan, bordering on a small garden, now in fact the Polish embassy, to which Mr. Walters enjoyed coming every Spring. Were my book, Merchants of Art, handy, you would find a reproduction of Sagan on plate 17B, among the illustrations that follow page 6. 

The photographs which were used for this publication seem to have gone astray. However, were I able to lay my hands on that particular print, I would join it to my father's. No charges, of course, for any of these. 

It is good of you to mention the opening on November 15th, and if my health, which has given me a good deal of trouble recently, allows me to do so, I would certainly much enjoy joining you. 

With renewed appreciation of your kind thought, 

Sincerely yours, 

Germain Seligman

Mr. Richard H. Randall, Jr. 
Director
The Walters Art Gallery
Baltimore, Maryland 21201

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