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commission business and where every Tom, Dick and Harry approaches him, satisfied to make 2% or 3% on something that they don't have to purchase - and I fear though he might have all the intentions in the world of going to you some day, in the meantime he is buying from those who submit things to him. Furthermore, we don't live in times where things are lasting, and when you can say 'I will have a client in 5 years'. God only knows what will have happened to him, to us and to the modern pictures by then!!

SANDY-CHARDIN: I fear we might just as well forget it.

MANET "Ororon Ste. Marie": Brame - Bob, while I was away, had the visit of Agnes Mongan, to whom he showed the painting and who immediately volonteered the information that Arthur Sachs it seems, has right along been crazy about this painting. You know that Paul Sachs was rather keen about it too, so why not try and see whether we can't do something there, as small as the return may be.

REMBRANDT - £60,000, from Cold & Blot: I am awaiting your photo and will see whether I have some suggestions.

ZATZENSTEIN - STILL LIFE - CEZANNE: Please read your letter over. The only indication which you will see you have given me is "see Venturi" and you will admit that among the number of Still Life pictures reproduced, it really makes very little sense, so that I have no opinion and as things just stick and no business seems to be possible, I am certainly not keen to buy it. I would be much more interested, en principe, in the Paul Cezanne landscape.

RENOIR - NUDE - MME. GILLOU: I cabled you that I was impressed with it from the reproduction but I really wouldn't buy it without seeing it.

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DAUMIER BOUGHT WITH MOSER: I would like to have it sent over at once, for our show "The Stage" and let me have at once all the bibliography in connection with it form the catalogue.

GUIRAUD - GUARDI: I have no idea what to do about it.

BEHAGUE: Collection - This collection is of such renown that I believe there would be certainly, something intensely interesting to do with it here, and I think that you, Georges, Paul Brame, etc., should work out a scheme by which we would be the depositors of this collection on some sort of a percentage basis. It is impossible for them to sell it now at auction in Europe, and to have it in safe keeping here and a special exhibition organised, could only be to the advantage of the heirs.

RENOIR - DECAP: There was still this painting of the little girl that I know you never liked very much, but it seems to me that it is taking today an importance which of course it never had before.

C. M. de Hauke, Paris.  

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