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March 12th., 1943.

Dear Mr. Milliken:

My employee, John Sullivan, returned this morning from Providence and tells me that around six o'clock last night, the GOYA portrait was turned over to the Railway Express Company, and that, as per the instructions I had given him, the painting was carefully packed in two cases, affording thus the maximum of protection. I hope, therefore, that by now you have received it in good condition. 

Pursuant to your request, I take pleasure in enclosing herein, two invoices covering this transaction, the details of which were carefully worked out in my correspondence with Mr. H. W. Parsons and Mr. Harry Sayles Francis: 

(1) The purchase price to go to Lt. Col. G. S. Rockefeller, ............................. $45,000.
(2) The commission to be divided equally between Mrs. A. Stewart Walker of this city, the seller's representative, and my firm............... $5,000.

making thus a total purchase price of $50,000. (Fifty Thousand Dollars).

I have made this separation in case you would wish to send me two checks - one made out to the order of Lt. Col. Rockefeller, and the other to my firm. Making out the check directly to the former owner has the advantage to you, of having thus in your fills the receipt from the seller. Should you not fully endorse this proposition, nor the dividing up of the invoice as I have them in this letter, I will gladly send you a single one with the global price. 

As I wrote previously that I would, my firm has taken care of the packing and shipping expenses. 

Let me repeat to you that I am indeed flattered and pleased that, through my firm this masterpiece is enriching your collection. 

With personal regards, 
Yours very sincerely, 

(Germain Séligmann)

William M. Milliken, Esq., 
Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, Ohio.