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M. KNOEDLER & Co.,

PARIS, 23, Place Vendôme. LONDON, 15, Old Bond St. NEW-YORK, 355, Fifth Avenue. --- Cable Addresses : KNOEDLER PARIS NEW-YORK LONDON --- TÉLÉPHONE 318-10 230-64

PARIS, 3 Nov. 1908

Dear Mr Frick, Thanks for your letter and photograph. The "Cottage Girl" has been sold, but personally I was glad you didn't care for it, it was an insipid picture. The "Terburg" has also been sold through Bode of the Berlin Museum for more money here than I offered it to you delivered. I mention this not to reproach you but as a proof of my action in advising you to buy it. I have your collection at heart as a whole and judge it from a broad standpoint, not of the moment but of the years to come when you and I are both gone and although we may die it is just as certain that criticism will live on + your collection must be the greatest achievement of my poor life. The chase after the almighty dollar in the United States is so absorbing that one regards these matters less enthusiastically than here where art has become a fixture from having flourished so many generations. I should like to have had you in Spain that we might have seen together the glories of the Prado + reflected upon Velasquez who all things considered seems to me the greatest painter the world has produced. The influence of such