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Letter from Roger E. Fry to [Henry Clay] Frick, 24 April 1910
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have the honour of showing it to those interested in art history in London.
I start for Poland to-morrow night. The Count pays the expenses of my journey, and all expenses of packing, insurance copying etc. The only sum paid to any intermediary is the DELETED TEXT distinctly /DELETED TEXT unusually PITHY?? commission of £1400 to Carfax which the Count also pays.
It has been a most agitating and difficult matter to transact, but I know that you are able to appreciate the extraordinary DELETED TEXT quality /DELETED TEXT imaginative intensity of this great picture and that your DELETED TEXT great /DELETED TEXT collection is one where it will find a fitting home, and you will have DELETED TEXT got /DELETED TEXT secured it for at least twenty thousand pounds less than any dealer would have asked DELETED TEXT for /DELETED TEXT you for it.
I have had to undertake much more than merely acting in an advisory capacity in this matter, having to DELETED TEXT undertake /DELETED TEXT see to all the details which usually fall to the lot of the middle-man. I hate to speak
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