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quite ready. I quite understand your feelings about the Maris + realize the price seems high but there is no other Maris like it in the world, it is beyond dispute his masterpiece and it is hard to determine the value of such a picture - I am sending our N.Y. house with instructions to forward you upon arrival 2 photographs of paintings by Reynolds - one of the Marchenier? d'Harcourt circled number 115 which you already know about + one of Lady Shipwith circled number 116, the latter recently purchased. The former as you know is !125,000.- underlined:to you the latter is $160,000. underlined:to you I have refused $150,000. cash for the latter and underlined:won' take less than the above prices. The former we bought direct ^from the family the latter was recently purchased from the family + passed through 2 dealers before I got it all within a week - I send you the photographs because they are a marvelous pair in every way, one without a hat, one with, different in color, facing each other - You have never seen 2 such pictures and would