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WELbeck { 0687 0688

THE WALLACE COLLECTION
MANCHESTER SQUARE
LONDON, W.1

28th April 1956

My dear Mr. Seligman,
My most grateful thanks for your letter of 23rd April and for your kind remarks about my article. I am afraid that the information about the tapestries being bought by Mrs. Hamilton Rice was given me by the late Mr. Fiske Kimball and I am sorry that it was published in that form. I will certainly see that any reference to Messrs Duveen having been involved in the transaction is removed from any further reference to the subject.

I am delighted that Mrs. Seligman has been able to throw a little more light on the whereabouts of the four yellow-ground Don Quixote tapestries, and am very grateful to her and you for the reference. I will in due course write to Mrs. Mackay and see if she still has them and if any photographs are available. I am also interested in the reference to the red-ground set. It looks as if my conjecture that they might have been Lord Hertford's is rather wide of the mark. It is not, however, impossible that they were bought by Lord Hertford sometime after passing out of the collection of the Duke of Hessen-Darmstadt and before they came to Mr. J. P. Morgan. But I agree with you that it seems likely that Mr. Hunter would have made some reference to their having been in the Lord Hertford's possession.

We do know about the Mobiler de Salon at the Musée Camando, but I am interested to know about the furniture which went to Alfred Lowenstein. We also had a note about the so-called Boucher at the Ringling Museum, Sarasota.

With my kindest regards,
Yours very sincerely
Robert A Cecil

Mr. Germain Seligman
5 East 57th Street,
New York.