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Dear Mr. Duveen: | Dear Mr. Duveen: | ||
The essence of our understanding about the bronzes and the limoges was, I was to have all of the finest bronzes or limoges in the collections purchased by you from the Estate of J. P. Morgan. | The essence of our understanding about the bronzes and the limoges was, I was to have all of the finest bronzes or limoges in the collections purchased by you from the Estate of J. P. Morgan. | ||
I would like you to | I would like you to mark in the Morgan catalogue of bronzes those I have purchased, and you may, if you please, send me a list of the bronzes purchased from the Morgan Estate, and also a complete list of the limoges. | ||
I was looking over the catalogue of the bronzes and saw what seemed to me to be a very beautiful one called, I think, "The Ascension." It may be that you did not get that from the Morgan Estate. I do not want to have another experience like I had with the porcelains, and have Uncle Henry slip in and select a few of the finest for one of his customers. | I was looking over the catalogue of the bronzes and saw what seemed to me to be a very beautiful one called, I think, "The Ascension." It may be that you did not get that from the Morgan Estate. I do not want to have another experience like I had with the porcelains, and have Uncle Henry slip in and select a few of the finest for one of his customers. | ||
Yours very truly, | Yours very truly, | ||
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Stamped in blue ink: COPY IN LETTER BOOK.
Prides Crossing, Mass. June 22, 1916.
Dear Mr. Duveen: The essence of our understanding about the bronzes and the limoges was, I was to have all of the finest bronzes or limoges in the collections purchased by you from the Estate of J. P. Morgan. I would like you to mark in the Morgan catalogue of bronzes those I have purchased, and you may, if you please, send me a list of the bronzes purchased from the Morgan Estate, and also a complete list of the limoges. I was looking over the catalogue of the bronzes and saw what seemed to me to be a very beautiful one called, I think, "The Ascension." It may be that you did not get that from the Morgan Estate. I do not want to have another experience like I had with the porcelains, and have Uncle Henry slip in and select a few of the finest for one of his customers. Yours very truly,
Mr. Joseph Duveen,
Messrs. Duveen Brothers,
720 Fifth Avenue, N.Y.