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[begin page 2 of 2 - right side] the Simon Collection in Berlin. Will you be kind enough to affirm this, in order that my catalogue may be accurate and state the present owner of this picture? Faithfully yours, Albert Eugene Gallatin Henry C. Frick, Esq. [end page 2 of 2 - right side] [begin page 2 of 2 - left side] Copy, Replying to your note of the 5th inst. Mr. Frick not only owns the Vermeer painting [begin inserted text] you refer to as [end inserted text] formerly in the Simon Coll ([begin deletion] & [end deletion] illus. in Hale's book page 210) but he also has had for some years past Vermeer's The Music Lesson [shorthand symbols] 252 ([begin deletion] reproduced as No. 18 in de Groot's book on Vermeer [end deletion]) and the Soldier & Laughing Girl [shorthand symbols] 16 ([begin deletion] engraved by Jacquemart & reproduced in de Groot's portfolio plate 27 & in the Grafton Gallery Catalogue [end deletion]) [end page 2 of 2 - left side]