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Then we should be able to count upon: 

1 - Oil sketch - three heads of soldiers, study for the "Redition of Madrid" which I may have shown you last season, now in a private collection in the U.S. 
2 - Painting - Aoukir (?), in the Detroit Museum 
3 - Painting - another version of the "Pestiferes", closer to the final one, and very different from the first, now, I believe, in the Boston Museum. 

Still quite problematic are: 

A portrait which I understand is in the Walter P. Chrysler Collection and a painting which was in a collection in Connecticutt, whereabouts unknown at present, and, of course, one or two paintings from H.I.H. Prince Napoleon ????

I would not, of course, be able to show them all in my galleries as with the monumental size of some of them I shall have no room, though I intend having all of them figure in the catalogue since the extra ones will be shown in your museum and possibly another. 

There is one painting, most desirable, about which I would like to have your opinion - you understand that I will take care of all the correspondence involved whether or not the paintings will come to my galleries or go directly to you. Shall I ask for the "Portrait of Charles Legrand", the young officer leaning against his horse, in the Los Angeles Museum? It would definitely enhance the exhibition, but on account of its height (it is probably over nine feet high) it could only be shown in your museum and the hypothetical other one. As much as I think it would be anmost valuable addition to such a manifestation of Gros' talent, you may not wish to incurr the additional expense which the packing and shipping would entail. 

Now regarding the expense, I am truly unable at present, from California where I am without the necessary documents (which will also explain my vagueness in some of the above) to give you an estimate. However, let me say that as long as I would have had the majority of the paintings of the first group sent over to New York irrespective of your cooperation in the exhibition, I see no reason to have you partake in the sipping costs from Europe which, you will understand, are considerable on account of the size of those paintings. Let me add, quite confidentially, I may not be quite as generous towards the other museum should there be one. 

Thus your expense would be essentially the shipment from New York to Cleveland, some of the other small paintings from Europe should they be forthcoming, the shipment of the group of drawings from Paris (though this should not be a very large amount) and an apportioned share of the catalogue, and the insurance. 

I am afraid you will not find this letter entirely satisfactory nor as precise and business-like as we would like, you and I, to have it, but it is the best