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5 East 57th Street
New York 22, N. Y.
September 10th, 1945

Dear "Coco":

I received your letters of August 20th with the greatest pleasure.

If you can send me the exact address of Geo Cahen I would be thankful as I would like to send him a food parcel.

I imagine you know that Lord Victor Rothschild has been divorced.  If I recall well he lived in Cambridge and had bought Cezanne after Cezanne.  I suppose that the fact that he has separated from his wife won't induce him to sell.  Anhow I remember that I paid him a visit which was a rather disagreeable one because outside of calling on him to see his collection, I had nothing to offer him which was up to his level.

I had just to read over the Manet book by Jamot Wildenstein and saw in the catalogue:

1)  Paul Valery possessed a "Bunch of Pivoines"
2)  Wormser (I suppose Andre) a "Young Woman with a Book"
3)  Mme. Lederlin a "Singer of Café Concert"

Baron Robert de Hirsch has just been married in Basel to an old friend of his, the daughter of Koch, the jeweler whom your father knew very well and who I think sold the pearl necklaces your mother owned. She had been living in New York for the past years and left a few weeks ago; got a divorce a few days after her arrival from her banker husband, Dreyfus, the brother of that woman who showed us paintings at the Claridge's.  While she was in New York I saw her from time to time.  She has a very nice, grown-up son who is married and has a child.  Her daughter is married to the son of the electrical Heineman.  Maybe if you went to Basel you could look her up although I don't think it would help very much.  She is extremely nice, a little deaf, but very warm and is a sculptress.

The situation in South America for us is a very difficult one.  The trip is frightfully expensive and possibly not easy to undertake.  It takes a long time.  I am sure that it would be worthwhile to go there but one would have to take an important stock along and for the time being this doesn't seem feasible because we do not have enough to my feeling for the States.  Anyhow, if you could obtain interesting data out of Emilio Tery or Lariviere, I would appreciate your communicating it to me.

I am thrilled with the news that Beisteigui has given his collection to the Louvre.  Jamot's soul is certainly by now in paradise and he will be thrilled to know that he hasn't been fooled in his efforts.  Do you see the old man?  And would you like me to write to him?  In that case is his address still 14 Ave. Foch?

A portrait by Watteau could be of high interest over here but I am wondering if you couldn't sell it much better than we could.  Anyhow, if you ever get it, please send me a photograph with dimensions and description of colors.

I hope that your vacation was good and that you ate a lot of fish.  The fact that you had a seat reserved on the train seems to me very gratifying.

Thank you for your investigation about Mme. Nillus.  I haven't yet received a photograph of the Grueber.

Mary and I spent a night in Ridgefield at Edmee and Jacqueline.  They both were brilliantly well.  So were the dogs, the goats and pigs.  The animals give them a terrible lot of work but they seem to enjoy it tremendously and they behave

t.s.v.p.