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THE WALLACE COLLECTION
MANCHESTER SQUARE 
LONDON, W1M 6BN

28th October, 1977

Dear Mr. Seligman,

Thank you so much for you letter, and kind welcome in retrospect so to speak. It was in August, not June, that I called on you, and I would not have wanted you to be in New York at that time owing to the tremendous heat and humidity, which nearly overwhelmed me, but not quite, I am glad to say!

In my three weeks I was able to see quite a lot in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, and was based in fact at Princeton, where my former Director, Sir Francis Watson lent me his house for when I wanted it. The weather did get cooler towards the middle of the month, which made my visits to Boston and Washington much more bearable. I certainly saw the splendid Houdons in the National Gallery, as well as the [[underlined]]Baigneuse[[/underlined]] in the Metropolitan. I did not realise that the latter was as weather as that. It always looks so white in most photographs, but it was always intended as an outdoor sculpture.

With kindest regards, and my best wishes for your health.

Yours sincerely,
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Mr. Germain Seligman,
5 East 57th Street,
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10022,
U.S.A.