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April 22nd, 1938

Dear Mr. Howard:

Thank you for your kind lines of April 15th referring to the 18th century English show which you are planning.

We will be delighted to cooperate with you and will certainly be able to lend you some English portraits, although I do not know exactly what we will have available then. We have a very fine group of English portraits at present including two Lawrences, two Romneys, two Raeburns, a Hoppner, a Beechey and a Harlow, all extremely fine pictures and in excellent condition.

I should like to know if the Museum will pay the expenses connected with insurance, packing and shipping. I know a number of collectors who are, generally speaking, willing to lend their paintings, but who balk when they are approached, and the first question they ask is how much it will cost them.

I would be delighted to help you in any way I can, and would even be glad to write letters to the collectors here if you would want me to do so.

Hoping these lines find you in good health,

Kindly believe me

Yours sincerely,

(René Seligmann)

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

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