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New York 22, N.Y.

March 27, 1961

My dear Mr. Hayes,

By your lines of March 22nd you apprise me of your undertaking of a Catalogue Raisnne of Gainsborough Drawings, and you are asking me about any drawings by this artist that may have passed through my firm's hands.

To my regret, I have no knowledge of the Woodall Catalogue of the Gainsborough Landscape Drawings, 1939. I have gone through some of my very old records and find that in 1924 we had had four such drawings. The only photographs I have of them are dull and quite tiny. However, the enclosed photostatic copies of them might allow you to identify them.

The following information might also be of help to you as I find that they all stemmed from the H.J. Pfungst Collection. If I am not mistaken an auction of the latter was held in London around the turn of the Century or perhaps in the first quarter. Furthermore, the "Herd Driver" (showing a cow under a tree with the driver standing by), had been previously in the J. Heywood Hawkins's the "Peasant Girl" in the Thomas Woolner, R.A. - that the "Roadside" (two gypsies with a cart and two horses) bears the Warwick crest stamp, as well as the one bearing the title "The Old Shed"(a road with a shed on the right in front of which a horse with a seated figure). 

Trusting the above may be of assistance to you,
Yours Very Sincerely,
Germain Seligman

J. T. Hayes, Esq. 
Assistant Keeper,
Kensington Palace
LONDON W. 8
England 

Encls. 4 photostatic copies

Hayes 
London Mus

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