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THE BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY
ALBRIGHT ART GALLERY
BUFFALO, N.Y.

CORNELIA B. SAGE QUINTON DIRECTOR

CABLE ADDRESS "ALBGAL BUFFALO"
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November 21st, 1922.

Dear Germain:-

I have just written you an official letter to put in with this in regard to the tapestries. I appreciate your great proposition and that of your dear daddy more than I can ever express to you. You surely are doing me a great favor and the Gallery also and both the Chairman of the Art Committee and myself will consider the matter confidential, of course. We can just see the gorgeous array of tapestries in our Sculpture Court and we are indeed grateful. The only thing is that the Board is holding the Art Department down on expenses this year and we have little or almost no money for transportation and insurance for special exhibitions and no money for foreign exhibitions at all this year. Probably next year things will be better but if you were going to bring the tapestries over anyway and if you could transfer the insurance from your gallery to ours and if the expenses would not be too great, we would be indeed joyful over having such a wonderful exhibition here and we are most grateful to you and your dear daddy always. I do appreciate your goodness and I know that you are doing it just for me and to help me. I assure you, my dear friends, that it will help me beyond expression. 

It was a great grief to us that we did not see you again but at the end our plans were all upset. Poor Billie caught a Spanish germ in San Sebastian and was quite ill in Biarritz. Then we went back to Paris intending to have a nice visit with you and your dear ones and go to the beautiful Palais de Sagan again but Billie got more cold and had to go to bed again in Paris. We think it was the real "flu" as they had much of it in San Sebastian and along northern Spain. However, dear friend, know that we think of you all all the time and the dear mother and the great red letter night in our stay in Paris was the wonderful time we had with you. Oh, it was unsurpassably wonderful and Billie is in love with your dear daddy as well as I am, and your dear mother too, to say nothing of your good self, and we are going over to see you again just as soon as we can. One of the Park-Lewis girls cam out the other day and they are counting on seeing you; they are lovely girls. Billie and I did go once to call on your dear mother in the house and then we went, as you know, to the Palais before leaving, but we intended to go to both places again and to have a visit with you, but we missed it and believe me it was a great grief to Billie and me. 

Will you please give our best love to the dear daddy and mother and tell them that I have that wonderful basket that contained the candy they sent us upon our arrival in Paris in my room and am using it to keep Billie's socks in so I can darn them. We have it with us all the time so as to remind us of the wonderful time we had with you all.