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Mr. Trevor
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THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
OF THE CITY DETROIT

ARTS COMMISSION
RALPH H. BOOTH, PRESIDENT
ALBERT KAHN,
EDSEL B. FORD,
CHARLES T FISHER,
COMMISSIONERS

W. R. VALENTINER,
ART DIRECTOR
CLYDE H. BURROUGHS,
SECRETARY

December 19, 1929.

Mr. Rolf Waegen,
Jacques Seligmann and Company,
3 East 51st Street,
New York City.

Dear Mr. Waegen:

I have had another talk with Dr. Valentiner concerning the Rubens tapestries, and he says it is quite impossible for us to acquire them. I have therefore given orders to have them packed and returned to you with many thanks for your kindness in letting us have them for so long a time. I regret very much that we are unable to purchase these pieces, as they made our large hall very beautiful and seemed almost to become a part of it.

The Metropolitan Museum bulletin of December arrived this morning and I was glad to see the Gobelin portrait which Mr. Breck purchased from you.  I immediately showed it to Mr. Burroughs that he might see what the Gobelin portrait, which you are going to loan us for our tapestry exhibition, is like. I am still feasting my mind on the beautiful things which you showed me and I am looking forward to my exhibition of eighteenth century tapestries, in which your contributions should be the "piece de resistance".

Today we are having a snow storm which certainly makes the storm in New York on the day I went out to luncheon with you look like nothing at all.

With most cordial good wishes, I am

Very sincerely yours,

Adèle Weibel

Mrs. A. C. Weibel,
Curator of Textiles

ACW:JH

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