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GERMANIC MUSEUM
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

DIRECTORS
Edward W. Forbes
Paul J. Sachs

CURATOR
Charles L. Kuhn

VISITING COMMITTEE
Gasper G. Bacon
Chairman
Paul V. Bacon
John Nicholas Brown
Mrs. Kuno Francke
Phillip Hofer
Charles J. Liebman
Henry Allen Moe
Gustav Oberlaender
F. A. O. Schwartz
Edward M. M. Warburg
Mrs. Charles Whiting

RL

May twenty-first  1934

Germain Seligmann, Esq.,
c/o Messrs. Jacques Seligmann and Company
3 East 51st Street 
New York, N.Y.
My dear Mr. Seligmann:

After a more thorough investigation of that Thüringen altarpiece, I am convinced that your view of the object is the correct one and that the opinion of our restorer is incorrect. 

I have had several X-rays made of the carving and painting and the radiographs show absolutely no evidence of recent workmanship aside from the paint film of the surface. 

I want to present my apologies for questioning the altarpiece before I investigated the matter more thoroughly. I sincerely hope that it has caused you no great inconvenience. 

Will you be good enough to return the figure that we sent you for investigation. 

Sincerely yours, 
Charles L. Kuhn (Signature)
Curator.

Transcription Notes:
Charles Kuhn, not Khan