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Letter from [Henry Clay Frick] to Joseph Duveen, 21 May 1918
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New York, May 21, 1918.
Dear Mr. Duveen:
I send you herewith a letter in regard to the various articles you have in my house on approbation. I think I have been very liberal in making it for many reasons, and particularly so in regard to the articles in the Boucher Room. My agreement with you, - and it was a proposition made of your own volition - was that for the payment I agreed to make you, you were to make the room at your own expense "complete and beautiful" supplying everything that was needed to reach that result; therefore, I think I can claim that anything you put into that room was covered by the price I agreed and have paid you. As you will see by my proposition, I have not availed myself of what I think was and is my just right, and I still reserve the right to claim those articles, in case we do not reach an agreement on all other things involved in this matter.
I have allowed you full price on almost everything you have placed here on approval, as I am desirous of being very fair with you. It is a serious question whether anyone should at this time invest so much money in works of art, but as I contemplate this all as a gift to the public, I feel comewhat SIC justified in doing so.
The other articles here on approval we can consider when things look somewhat more propitious, if you decide to leave them in my house on approval.
Yours very sincerely,
Mr. Joseph Duveen,
Messrs. Duveen Brothers,
New York, N. Y.