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THE WALLACE COLLECTION
MANCHESTER SQUARE
LONDON, W.1
1st May 1953


My dear Mr. Seligman,

I must apologize for not answering before your letter of April 14th, for which I thank you. We shall be very glad to keep the appendix to your article, and I am returning to you herewith the draft of your chapter on Bagatelle.

I am afraid that the question of making a photostat of the inventory in America would be rather beyond our means, but if you ever saw your way to bringing it over and allowing us to look at it here, we could undoubtedly get our photographer to make a photostat at a much lower rate, and we would naturally take only one set of prints. There is absolutely no hurry about this, but I would be glad sometime to have your views on whether this second proposition would be possible.

I am also sending you prints taken from the negatives which I had made at the time of writing my article in the Burlington Magazine. The page from The Sphere I had photographed entire, but with some of the captions left out. The view in the bottom right hand corner is of Sir John Murray Scott's London house, No. 5 Connaught Place, but the other four are taken in the rue Lafitte. Above the cabinet in the top right hand corner you will see the bottom half of the Gimpel Boucher. You will also find many objects easily identifiable to you in the bottom left hand corner, including the Boucher tapestries now in the Philadelphia Museum.

With kind regards,
Yours sincerely
Robert Cecil

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