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THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART CLEVELAND 6, OHIO, U.S.A. UNIVERSITY CENTER STATION WILLIAM MATHEWSON MILLIKEN, DIRECTOR CABLE ADDRESS MUSART CLEVELAND VIA AIR MAIL September 2, 1952 Mr. Germain Seligman Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc. 5 East 57th Street New York 22, New York Dear Germain: It was good to have your letter while still in Vermont. We were having such a busy time occupied with friends and family that I simply wrote no letters and yours among them has had to wait. I hasten, however, no back at the Museum, to send you a line. I can only hope you had a restful and/or diverting vacation as we did. I suspect on the whole you were cooler than we, for the early days were very warm, if not so much so perhaps as Cleveland, but enough to make the lake a great boon. My plans work out for a later New York visit largely because until mid-October Mr. Milliken is to be away, and though Dr. Munro is here too, and Sherman Lee is now joining out staff as Curator of Oriental Art and henceforth will be able to assume responsibility, I am at present expected to stay around until Mr. Milliken returns. The rather soiled and ancient Bulletin, for which I apologize, accompanying this letter bears on its cover a Redon pastel, once borrowed from Mr. Velantine Dudensing. Would you perchance know the present whereabouts, either of the picture - for I have a faint recollection it was sold - or in the event you do not, where the present owner can be reached, or Mr. Dudensing. Mrs. Marcus of our staff is writing her book on flowers and arrangement, and flower painting, and would like to use it as an illustration; and consequently she wants to ask for permission for such use. I shall be grateful for any enlightenment. Don't worry overly about the Goldschmidt-Guardi matter. I have an idea the memorandum was made very early in the negotiations about the pictures, and that subsequently you probably sent all there was to know, which is now incorporated in the record and the early memorandum never destroyed. Frances joins me in best to you and Ethlyne. Ever yours, Henry Henry S. Francis, Curator of Paintings and Prints HSAF:J P.S. AN AIR MAIL REPLY WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
