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November 9th., 1937.

Dear Dr. Valentiner:

Following my very short note of November 3rd., in which I hastened to let you know that Mrs. Herbert N. Straus was willing to lend her VERROCCHIO bas-relief to your exhibition, I am sending you today a letter I have just received from her referring to the question of packing and insurance, to which I had alluded.

I would be much obliged to you if, when you write to Mrs. Straus you would tell her how you intent taking care of her particular wishes in this matter - in other words, to answer the letter which is herein enclosed.

I gather also from her letter that the bas-relief is insured, but whether this means that it will be during transit New York-Detroit and back, and while it is on exhibition at the Institute, I have to you to find out.

I want to thank you for your assurance that the bas-relief will have the place of honor in your exhibition.

As per your request, I am sending you two (2) photographs of the relief, and as regards to the cataloguing, I feel certain that you know more about it than I.  However, say I remind you that at the time I had a voluminous correspondence with Excellence von Bode, Mr. Salomon Reinach, conversations with Mr. Gustave Soulier, who was then Director of the French Institute in Florence, etc., which all lead to the same conclusion - that this bas-relief is a work by Andrea Verrocchio.  Further, Dr. L. Planiscig, described and reproduced it in the "Jahrbuche der Kunsthistorichen Sammlungen in Wien", Siebenter Band (1933).  Also, Seymour de Ricci wrote of it and reproduced it in the "Gazette des Beaux Arts", April 1934.

It was described by me as follows:

"A bas-relief in carved white marble.  The Idealized Portrait of Alexander the Great.  The warrior is seen in profile, turned to the right.  His hair falls in curls to the shoulder.  He wears a

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