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Mr. Robert LEVY      10/12/34     F°4

Ernest MAKOWER:  who completed of old english silver plate, lives in London. He is one of our former clients. An important business man in the Silk Industry. He is Trustee of the London Museum, and Chairman of MAKOWER McBEATH PROPERTY, Australia; and Chairman of MAKOWER McBeath LTD., New-Zealand. (Silks). He buys paintings up to € 1.000. -- a piece.

Mrs. SELWYN IMAGE, wife of the artist who had given a charcoal drawing by her husband, lives in London. I donot SIGNORELLI which was mentioned in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts in 1932(Mars issue). 

                In Melbourne there is one art dealer whose name was given to us by Mr. Bernard Hall. He is: 

Mr. Gill, personal friend of Mr. Hall, and a very reliable man. 
         Furthermore, on my way back from Scotland to London, I travelled with a:

Mr. R. Sinclair SMITH, Manager of the Australian, Mercantile, Land 
                             & Finance C°., Lts.,4 Bligh Street, SYDNEY, N.S.W. He gave me valuable information concerning the political of Australia; gave me some advice as to the way in which we could offer the Cook Monument; and told me about the Queensland Club in Brisbane, of which he is a member. He is in the Wool business, and this, as you know, is the chief source of Australian wealth. He told me he was at the head of one of the most important wool first. I am drawing your attention to this particular man, as I think that through him, you might perhaps get in touch with Major Alan Currie, of Ercildoune Station, near Melbourne. This Major Currie, I believe, must own one of the largest sheep ranches in Australia, as he entertained lavishly the Duke of Gloucester, some weeks ago, on his ranch, having given a private bal in his honour. Another big wool, merchant, or to be more precise, sheep rancher, is a Mr.....RICHARDS, whose daughter, daughter, Miss Patricia Richards, married two or three years ago, in London, the Earl of Jersey. He is supposed to be tremendously wealthy and lives in or around Melbourne. These two gentleman might be interested in the Cook Monument. 

        If you knew someone in New-York who could introduce [scribble] introduce you into the big "Wool Society" in Australia, I believe it would be the best to make a step forward.


CONTACTS WITH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUMS:
- We have sent a catalouge of our Ingres Exhibition to the Chief Librarian of the National Gallery of Victoria,Melbourne:Mr.Ernest Roland PITT.
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