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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