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November 15, 1969

Dear Mr. Wark:

Last week-end granted me the leisure to read the booklet on the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery that you were good enough to forward. I greatly enjoyed it for it constitutes a deep psychological study of those two leading personalities, not only as they appeared to the public but in their intimacy, behind the scene, so to say, and the excellent choice of photographs show Mr. Huntington in various moods. Also of merit is the care taken in depicting in detail the development of your monumental institution.

It reveals also an important purpose hitherto unknown to me, namely, your intention of continuing to enrich the collection, particularly in the fields of silver and drawings. 

I am therefore taking the liberty - and hope you will not mind - of submitting (under separate cover) a transparency, as well as a pamphlet containing an exhaustive study of a drawing by ROSSETTI, the quality of which I consider worthy of your beautiful ensemble. I hope too that you will not judge its merit by the modest selling price, which is $4,000 (FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS). Though, as you well know, Pre-Raphaelite artists, so long neglected, are anew coming to the fore in general appreciation.

Should this work of art not appeal to you, may I ask you to kindly return this documentation. On the other hand, should you wish to see the original, I would gladly ship it to you on approval.

My attention was also held by a G.B. TIEPOLO painting which you mention - "Saint Roch" - and in this connection I would like to point out that a few weeks ago I was fortunate in being able to acquire an oil painting, an oval, by the same artist, and representing "Saint Mark". Saint Mark and Saint Roch being the two patron saints of Venice, it occurred to me that my painting would be of interest to you. It is slightly smaller than your "Saint Roch", measuring 13" x 10-1/2', and curiously enough, going through Professor Morassi's catalogue raisonné of Tiepolo's oeuvre, in which my painting is of course reproduced, I noticed that there are only three representations of Saint Mark - my painting being one of them and 

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