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J/M

June 18th 1920

Mr. J.E. ALDRED
ALDRED 7 Co, Ltd.
42 Wall Street
[[underlined]]NEW YORK[[/underlined]]

My dear Mr. Aldred,

I just receive a letter from my secretary in New York, dated 3rd. June, in which he writes me that you have telephoned to him different times about the tapestry and that you seem to be discontent because the tapestry was not taken out of the Custom House immediately, and that Mr. DUVEEN told you that he would have taken the tapestry out of the Custom House at once.  Don't you know that Mr. DUVEEN in telling you such a thing tells you something which is absolutely impossible.

My secretary writes me that the day when you telephoned the tapestry was arrived in the Custom House since two days.  In New York we depend upon the examinators in the Custom House, and I had given order to my secretary to telephone to you immediately as soon as the tapestry would be out of the Custom House.  Nobody, whoever it might be, can get it out in two days, that is absolutely impossible, and if DUVEEN tells