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October 22, 1949


My dear Miss Cutter:

I am indebted to Mr. Curt Valentin for your name.

May I take the liberty of inquiring whether the following could be of interest to you?

Dr. Leo Planiscig, 183 Via Masaccio, Florence, Italy, whose name is certainly well known to you, not only as Curator of Sculpture and Renaissance and Medieval works of art in the Vienna Museum before the war, but also as an art historian and writer of a considerable number of books and publications on Italian sculpture of those early periods, wrote to me inquiring whether I could suggest to him a publisher, who would be interested in a book, which, for the time being, he calls: "One Hundred Bronze Statuettes of the Quattrocento".

He has of late published, I believe in the last two or three years, a series of books: Nanni di Banco, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, and Lorenzo Ghiberti.

It would seem to me, in view of the dearth of such publications in the U.S. today, and particularly of the type of book he would like to publish at present in this country, and the neglect in which such early sculptures are held today, that such a book, I would say, is very much needed.

I realize that before committing yourself you may wish to communicate directly with Dr. Planiscig about further data. Should you want, on the other hand, to contact him through me, I would be only too pleased of course to forward your letter to him.

Yours very sincerely,

(Germain Seligman)

Miss Margot Cutter
Fine Arts Director
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey

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