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M. KNOEDLER & Co
355, FIFTH AVENUE
COR. 34tht St
NEW - YORK
CABLE ADDRESSES :
KNOEDLER PARIS
KNOEDLER, NEW-YORK
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OFFICE : 2, RUE GLUCK
BEHIND OPERA
TELEPHONE 230-64
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PARIS, Sept. 15th 1899
Dear Mr. Frick,
Just
this minute your letter is
received announcing your
safe and pleasant trip home
which we were delighted to
hear and that you were all
well. I am very sorry that
you still are forty pounds
out to Carstairs but he seems
to be very lucky matching,
although he says he is out,
he is still in London, that
is to say he went back &
will return here next Monday,
Alexander Young wired saying
he would be here also that
day, so when they meet there
will be a "crash" in ptgs & hope
to land him something, but
I am very glad to frankly tell
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you that you have had the 'pick'
specially in those two little
"Daubigny's" which are "pearls"
better even than the "ones" I
am expecting!?!?... Those
are ptgs. you will never regret
having bought, although they
might seem to you high in price, as they really are. they
are such exceptionially SIC fine, that
they will afford to you any
amount of pleasure and you
will be proud to possess such
gems, which can hardly be
replaced, you cannot get better
there is a great of satisfaction
in that, I am very glad you
purchased the Troyon, "Cows
& sheep in the meadows", although
the clouds might seem hard it is that early summer
morning effect. bright sunlight, the mist rising from
the ground, counteracting on
the upper atmosphere, make
the sky somewhat heavy, we
must admit also that an
artist like Troyon, having painted
all his life from nature,
absolutely out of doors, must
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