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July 21, 1955

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Seligman,

I am sorry I did not get this off to you sooner this week, but I thought it better to wait a couple of days until I was better acquainted with the new things from Paris. On the enclosed list of photographs I have included in my count all the ones which we do not have at the present moment but which we know we can get from museums, etc. I hope it is what you want. I have carried the totals forward on each page and enumerated all the artists by name.

The material on the Arenberg is also enclosed. I have put a carbon copy of it in the file. The description of the seal or "devise" seems to have some variation, so I am enclosing several seals which I have found in our files. Edouard Laloire describes one that is unlike either of these.

We are waiting for the new file to come so we can put away some of these negatives. I have already put them away the tapestries and sculpture. I think you should go through them eventually but it will be easier to do so if they are filed first really. As for the other material where to put it is a great problem, but I expect to find alot of repetition and also that you will want to discard some of it. The list of collections is being compiled now and I hope to send it to you early in the week. 

It started getting hot again right after you left, but I think it is easing off now. Mr. Porjes and I went up to the apartment yesterday and saw that it was properly locked up, and Queenie is here today getting alot of housecleaning done.

It must be very nice out in California. I hope you are both having a very pleasant vacation and are not working too hard!

Very sincerely yours,

Martha Barton

Mr. & Mrs. Germain Seligman
c/o Mrs. George F. Porter
Les Mas
Ojai, California