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be prepared to give more but that they MIGHT?? name the price they wld. WOULD accept. My own INSERTED TEXT search /INSERTED TEXT of its value at present prices was anywhere between £80 & £100,000. Count Tarnowski named £60,000. Whereupon I called to you. Then the other count the actual owner came to London; meanwhile he had been to see Count Lanckoronski the great Viennese collector who had told him that he ought to get £80,000 for it and this valuation had been confirmed in Paris so that when he arrived his ambitions were very exalted and so far from thinking that he was doing well to get £16000 more than the previous offer he was inclined to CALL?? off the bargain altogether. In pursuance of yr. ?? I told the Count's brother that you had authorized me to offer £55,000. He told the Count (the owner) who tried to get out of the whole affair on this. But when I met him I said I had further instructions which enabled me to go to the full sum of £60,000 and that I considered his brother had pledged his word to sell at that price. Thereupon there followed interminable arguments as to when where & how the transaction was to be

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