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DUVEEN BROTHERS.

AND 302, FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK.

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21, Old Bond Street,

London 30th June 1906

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collection is too vast and varied for me to attempt anything like a full description in this letter, but the catalogue will show you what a wonderful lot it is.

I also want to tell you that I think I have succeeded in securing for you a set of three black vases for your side table. They are not actually in our hands yet, but if the owner of them (a nobleman in the North of England) does not back out of the arrangement, we expect to have them in our possession very shortly. They are really a remarkable set.

I want to make you understand that my efforts are devoted to securing the greatest things for you, so that your collection of art treasures may, if not eclipse, at any rate equal others.

I am also anxious that you should, whilst realising the artistic pleasure of possessing fine objects of art, appreciate the important fact, that they are also in the nature of an investment - that is to say, the spending of money is all very well, but to know that you have full value for your money, and that the value tends to enhance rather than decrease, is bound to add a little to the pleasure of possession. This is the aim I have in view, and more, you will agree, I cannot say.

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