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she had a sentimental attachment for it, but it is a piece of small importance. Miss Green would like to have you buy No. 164 underlined and "Not on Duveen list" in graphite for about $350.00, thinking that you might some day be glad to use it on an old door. No. 166 underlined and "Not on Duveen list" in graphite, if you could get it for about $1,000.00, would be more fitting for you to use for flowers than any modern vase, now that you have so many very old things in your house. I know that you will be amused to hear that Mr. Hart has questioned the authenticity of the superb Houdon Paul Jones which is in Mr. Morgan's Library. in left margin in graphite: "Not by Houdon - + not of JP. Jones! Miss Greene says that he is seventeen kinds of a d*--mn fool and that he doesn't know anything. I then asked her is she remembered the Houdon bust of La Clairon and she says that it is one of the greatest Houdons in the world and well known by everyone. I must say that the game of attributions is one of the most amusing things that has ever come into my life, and having sat for three years literally at the elbow of the man who was more sought after for attributions than anyone who has ever been in America, it is one of the things I do know something about. In left margin, in graphite: ""La Clairon" is not by Houdon + the 'file' is probably incorrect also H.C.F." Everything is going smoothly here at the house. Very sincerely yours, Signed: Ruth E. Williams.