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Letter from H.J. Duveen to Henry Clay Frick, 30 June 1906
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DUVEEN BROTHERS.
AND 302, FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK.
21, Old Bond Street,
London 30th June 1906
2.
really taking great interest in your house and the truth of this I will prove to you later on by showing you what I am doing. I have taken note of all that Mrs, Frick told me, and I beg you to assure her that I am most carefully attending to these matters. I shall be back in New York (P. G.) in October and one of the first things I shall make it my pleasure to attend to is to run over to your house.
In the meantime, however, I venture to make one important suggestion to you by saying that I would rather leave certain parts empty and unsettled than fill them up with things which later on you would want to remove.
Now you will, ere this, of course, have heard of the great collection which we have this week purchased in Germany, and you will have seen that it was formed by Dr. Bode of the Berlin Museum for the banker Oscar Hainauer, who died some ten years ago. The collection was formed about 20 years ago, and consists of the most beautiful and choice objects of art of the 15th and 16th centuries, Italian and early German and French. In a few days I will mail you a copy of the illustrated catalogue which was entirely prepared by Dr. Bode. Of course, the