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As soon as I will have something further to communicate, I will gladly do so, though we realize that today it is more a question of our satisfying our curiosity as to why an auction should have been planned, and yet how the picture remained in the B-D family until I bought it from them in 1939, as the fundamentals remain the same.

With best regards to you and Mr. Milliken,
Yours very sincerely,
(Germain Seligman)

Henry Sayles Francis, Esq.,
Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, Ohio.