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THE CENTURY CO. UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK July 6, 1910.

Henry Clay Frick, Pride's Crossing, Mass.

Dear Mr. Frick:– Owing to your kindness, we were able to secure most excellent photographs of a few choice pictures in your collection. I am sending you under another cover today a print of "Rembrandt's Portrait of Himself" merely to show you what good results we secured from these negatives. We have sent the pictures to Mr. Timothy Cole, our engraver, and he has selected five of them with a view to engraving on wood in The Century Magazine. These pictures are as follows:–

"A Woman with a Lamp" by Millet "Lady Skipworth" by Sir Joshua "Lady Hamilton as Nature" by Romney "Lady Peel" by Sir Thomas Lawrence "Snyder's Wife" by Van Dyck.

Merely to show you what excellent work Mr. Cole is doing, we enclose with the "Rembrandt" a proof of a recent wood engraving of his taken from Gérard's Portrait of Mme. Récamier. As you of course understand this engraving on wood is all done with tools and is in no sense of the word a photographic process.

We are most anxious some day to have Mr. Cole do your "Polish Rider" by Rembrandt, but that is quite a way ahead.

Please let us know if we can be of any service to you.

Thanking you for your kindness to us, I am,

Yours very truly, Francis W. Crowninshield

C/H.