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Letter from Charles C. Carstairs to Henry Clay Frick, 21 July 1908 [page 1 of 4]
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21 July 1908.
NEW YORK, 355, FIFTH AVENUE. --- PARIS, 23, PLACE VENDÔME. --- CABLE ADDRESSES KNOEDLER, LONDON. KNOEDLER, NEW YORK. KNOEDLER, PARIS, TELEPHONE 1292 MAYFAIR. --- 15, OLD BOND STREET, LONDON, W.
My dear Mr Frick, I received your letter this morning and am sending the Constable off tomorrow to go by the Lusitania next Saturday. I trust the delay will not annoy you, the purchase of the Turner and Constable has brought so many people in that it was a distinct benefit for me to have them for a time, and as it was to our interest, I was quite sure of your acquiescence - I also though there was a feasibility of your not taking the Constable in want of your buying the Romney and if such had been the case, I wanted to have it here rather than New York -- Mr Widener gave us $450,000.- and 52 pictures which cost him $250,000. for the 3 Van Dycks. He wanted me to take 50% in pictures but I told him