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THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

11150 EAST BOULEVARD AT UNIVERSITY CIRCLE
CLEVELAND, HIO 44106  CABLE ADDRESS: MUSART CLEVELAND
SHERMAN E. LEE DIRECTOR  TELEPHONE: 421-7340

April 8, 1968

Mr. Germain Seligman
5 East 57th Street
New York, New York 10022

Dear Mr. Seligman:

It was a pleasure to hear from you. Henry and Frances Francis are unreachable between April 4th and 16th. From April 17th to April 23rd they will be Siena, Palazzo Revizza, 34 Pian dei Mantellini (Care: Siga E. Grottinelli). From April 24th to May 2nd they will be in Florence, Albergo Berchielli, Lungarno Acciaioli 14, 50123. I do not have the exact whereabouts of William Milliken, although in his last letter I think he was headed from Austria to Italy to Greece by car. However, I think you would do best by writing directly to Miss Louise Schroeder, 11328 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 ,who handles his correspondence.

I was most interested in the third paragraph of your letter, and I hope that sometime you might be able to tell me more about the source of these sculptures. Needless to say, we did not smuggle them out of France, and, as far as I know, everything about their purchase is perfectly legal. However, I woudl hate to stir up a fuss with Mr. Pradel at this time, partly because we have sent two of our finest objects to the Council of Europe Exhibition in Paris (the Angel from Javernant and the Apostle from Chalonssur-Marne), and also I hope to visit this Exhibition in June, and I would like to be able to return to America afterwards.

It has been literally ages since I have been in New York, partly because I have been traveling everywhere else but there. For example, last year I spent six weeks in Leningrad and Turkey, although please note that all of my activities during this trip were strictly legal. However the Turks, especially Nezih Firatli at the Archeological Museum in Istanbul, has since given me some trouble. Needless to say, the belated publication of our early Christian marbles in our Bulletin is coming out shortly. The reason for my delay was really that all of my photographs and notes were stolen last Spring, here in the United States, and I have just now caught up with this research.

Nancy joins me in sending greetings. We are all fine and we hope that you and Mrs. Seligman are in good health too.

Very sincerely,
Bill
William D. Wixom
Curator of Medieval and
Renaissance Decorative Arts

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