Letter from Roger E. Fry to Henry Clay Frick, 17 April 1912
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TELEPHONE 6247 CITY.
from London
Burlington Magazine
17 Old Burlngton St. W.
Apr. 17. 12.
Dear Mr. Frick
I am sorry that you did not find it convenient to see me this morning as I naturally wanted to find out the cause of your changed attitude to me. I have from time to time at your wish (and as you know sometimes very succesfully) endeavoured to find you pictures worthy of your collection - a work for which my position on the Burlington Magazine and my independence of the trade particularly fits me. I am not a
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dealer and I regard the arrangement by which I have put my expert knowledge at your service as a perfectly equal business relation. I have not the slightest wish to press my services upon you and I regret that during your present stay in London you have made me feel as though I was soliciting your favour.
I have been able to put before you two or three things of absolutely first rate importance, things you would certainly be glad to possess in the future but you have made me feel that it was difficult to do this without loss of self-respect, by putting me off from day to day and failing to keep the appointments you had made.
I will therefore ask you to be good enough to tell me frankly whether you do not wish me to continue to assist you in the way I have been doing hitherto
Yrs faithfully
Roger Fry.
P.S. Would you be good enough to return the books which I left with you to the Burlington Magazine and to send the picture by Rubens together with Max Roose's opinion to Mr. P.M. Turner c/o Patersons 5, Old Bond Street W. I shall be at the Burlington Magazine on Friday afternoon should you wish to see me.
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from London
Burlington Magazine
17 Old Burlngton St. W.
Apr. 17. 12.
Dear Mr. Frick
I am sorry that you did not find it convenient to see me this morning as I naturally wanted to find out the cause of your changed attitude to me. I have from time to time at your wish (and as you know sometimes very succesfully) endeavoured to find you pictures worthy of your collection - a work for which my position on the Burlington Magazine and my independence of the trade particularly fits me. I am not a
[End of Page 1]
[Beginning of Page 2]
dealer and I regard the arrangement by which I have put my expert knowledge at your service as a perfectly equal business relation. I have not the slightest wish to press my services upon you and I regret that during your present stay in London you have made me feel as though I was soliciting your favour.
I have been able to put before you two or three things of absolutely first rate importance, things you would certainly be glad to possess in the future but you have made me feel that it was difficult to do this without loss of self-respect, by putting me off from day to day and failing to keep the appointments you had made.
I will therefore ask you to be good enough to tell me frankly whether you do not wish me to continue to assist you in the way I have been doing hitherto
Yrs faithfully
Roger Fry.
P.S. Would you be good enough to return the books which I left with you to the Burlington Magazine and to send the picture by Rubens together with Max Roose's opinion to Mr. P.M. Turner c/o Patersons 5, Old Bond Street W. I shall be at the Burlington Magazine on Friday afternoon should you wish to see me.
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