Viewing page 48 of 115

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

OAL:R

September 8th, 1938

Dear Mr. Howard:

I thank you for your letter of September 6th, and wish to express my regrets that you were unable to contact anyone in our galleries at the time of your visit. As I wrote you on June 28th, our premises were closed for the entire month of August and we really only reopened after Labor Day.

We are glad to confirm that the following paintings from our own stock will be available for your exhibition and note that they will be called for by Budworth during the week following September 14th:-

#5997 Beechey "Miss McMunn"
3767 Harlow "Mrs. MacLachlan"
5694 Hoppner "Sir Henry Goodricke"
5076 Lawrence "Lady Lovat"
4594 Opie "Match Girl"
5663 Raeburn "Miss Dalrymple"
6231 Romney "Mrs. Methuen"
6232 Romney "Captain Milnes"
4696 Smart "Portrait of a Gentleman"

and from the J. Horace Harding Estate:-

Hoppner "Lady Redesdale"
Gainsborough "Mrs. Fitzherbert"
Reynolds "Mrs. Freeman, Jr."

Will you be good enough to give us your decision regarding these pictures, and assuring you of our desire to contribute to the success of your exhibition,

Believe us to be

Yours very sincerely,
JACQUES SELIGMANN & CO., Inc.

By:-

Richard Foster Howard, Esq.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Dallas, Texas

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-20 16:54:03