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not go to see it. Also I consider the price absurdly high for one of that quality.
[[in ink: ? }]] I have found a most beautiful little Brouwer landscape at an absurdly low price £200. It is about of the quality of a Rembrandt. I so strongly feel that you aught to have it that I am having it reserved for you. Wld. you kindly cable a receipt of this.
I am as you know ceasing to be European Adviser at the Museum. I will not go into the details of my relation with the authorities but I consider that I have been most unfairly treated. The difficulty has ? that Mr. Morgan expected me to work for him while I regarded my first duty to be to the Museum. When I have proposed first rate things for the Museum, he has tried to secure them for himself. strikethrough: I have honored My duty to the Museum was only in regard to pictures ? and I have been the ? of Mr. Morgan

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