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wish in this connection.

I had never heard of this set having been once upon a time in the Hertford Wallace collection and do want to congratulate you on the research you are doing and the successful ferreting out of data you have achieved.

Not having in front of me the Burlington article which I took home, I do not recall whether you mentioned the famous Boucher set which my father sold to the then Mrs. George Widener which came later Mrs. Hamilton Rice and which is now in the Philadelphia Museum, but feel certain you know all about them. They belong to the series of Psyche. My brother had, or perhaps still has the famous Gobelins tapestry with the arms of France on red background, and there was also if my memory serves me correctly, a very large tapestry of Beauvais, either by Le Prince of the "Jeux Russines" or and perhaps a very large tapestry after cartoons by Casanova and either one or the other I believe went to Alfred Lowenstein in Brussels who also purchased as you know the paintings by Boilly.

I feel certain there is very little now to you in all this but if it has been of help I shall be delighted.

With personal regards,

Sincerely yours,

(Germain Seligman)

Robert A. Cecil, Esq.
The Wallace Collection
Manchester Square
London W.I
England