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Executive Offices
BOB JONES University
GREENVILLE . SOUTH CAROLINA
April 24, 1958

Mrs. Theresa D. Parker
Jacques Seligmann & Company, Inc.
5 East 57th Street
New York 22, New York

Dear Friend:

Thank you for your letter of April 16. I am glad you like the picture, though I really felt quite presumptions in presuming to send you, who are such an authority on modern works of art, any such simple little sketch. I hardly know how to suggest that you acquire some for your stock, though I would be most interested in seeing you do so.

The ones I bought were sold outside the hotel by the native boys--apparently the same ones who paint them. I could suggest that you write one or two of the people who were with KLM, or the hotel there; however, unless they had some knowledge of art, or something of an eye, I would hate to see you risk their selection. Only about one out of ten I saw appealed to me as especially good or was something I would like to have. Some of the boys repeat a basic theme over and over until it gets monotonous. Actually, they never do the same thing alike, but the composition of the pictures is quite similar. However, somebody with an eye could easily stand on the steps of the hotel there, and in a few hours' time acquire a good stock of nice works.

Why don't you let Mr. Seligmann fly you over? For a few hundred dollars you could buy a wonderful stock, and I am sure you could sell them for enough to pay your trip to Brazzaville. Incidentally, I am sure an exhibition of these would bring in more than that to the gallery in publi-city. If you stop at Lagos, you can acquire some very fine bits of sculpture, too. Anyway, it is an idea--I know you would enjoy the trip, but selling Mr. Seligmann is another thing entirely I am sure. Sometime when somebody I know is going to be down that way (and someone with a