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money for the foundation of a photograph library like Frick and Witt. Will write you more after Thursday night. Almost forgot: He was very interested in J Horace Harding's Goya but wouldn't pay the price. (probably $80-$100,000). 

John Shapley:
Returned to America two days ago having been away the better part of a year. Hence, was not "au courant"  of what was going on. Spoke to him of Valentine, who has Italian primitives but he can't let me know anything about him for "several weeks" as he must see him first, and as he doesn't know him very well, he cannot just pick up his phone. Will try to contact him from other sources. As to Nef, he will try to write him for tea or something. Nef buys drawings. I am to send Shapley a list of drawings we have and which he might be able to place. Nothing very thrilling or imminent here. Pijoan is still in Spain and the Jean Goujon is hopeless. They are paralyzed without Epstein, and have no funds or any resources to buy. E. has never given them a work of art yet and there is absolutely nothing in the [[strikethrough]] colle [[/strikethrough]] university collection.

de Veyrac:
Have tried to reach him several times with no success.

Mrs. Goodspeed:
Ditto.

Received three letters of introduction in the mails to Col. R.R. McCormick, Ralph Heins, and 

Transcription Notes:
---------- Please don't delete previous notes. There were extensive notes on here about fixes, it's clearly been re-opened at least 2 more times (or I wouldn't have it back), but as the original reviewer, I have nothing to reference from the first notes. This started out with a lot of [[?]]s and clarifications.