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RUBBER STAMP
OFFICE OF H. C. FRICK
RECEIVED
JUL 14 1914
FORWARDED
REFERRED
ANSWERED
/RUBBER STAMP
IMAGE -- TOP CENTER OF PAGE, IN PENCIL, SEMI-ENCIRCLED INITIAL ??
LEFT LETTERHEAD
M. KNOEDLER & Co.
556-558, FIFTH AVENUE
NEW-YORK
15, OLD BOND ST, LONDON
17, PLACE VENDOME, PARIS
TÉLÉPHONE CENTRAL 30-64
CABLE ADDRESSES:
KNOEDLER, NEW-YORK
KNOEDLER, LONDON
KNOEDLER, PARIS
/LEFT LETTERHEAD
RIGHT LETTERHEAD
PARIS, July 3rd, 1914
/RIGHT LETTERHEAD
Mr. H. C. FRICK,
Prides Crossing
Mass.
Dear Mr. Frick,
I was very glad to find your letter of June 3rd on
my return from Italy and to know that you were pleased with
the progress in the new house.
I made up my mind to take my wife and my brother
in law Balay to Italy and we had an ideal trip
enjoying every minute of it. We first went to Rome, then to
Orvieto, Perugia, Assise, Sienna, Florence, Bologna, Venice
and Milan. I saw some wonderful pictures, some of which
I would like to see in your collection, but unfortunately
they cannot be bought; the painting that struck me the most
was probably the Velasquez "Portrait of Pope Innocent X"
in the Doria Collection. The trip was all the more agreeable
because my wife enjoyed it so much.
We always seem to be kept busy with one thing or
another and are making some sales, though of course we are
prepared for more business.
I had a game of Golf with Charlie Phillips this
mornig, I was 5 up on the first 9, and was a little unlucky
in the second, but I finished 4 up; one of my ambitions has
been realized; I am going to try to improve my game so that
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