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Letter from Charles Romer Williams to [Henry Clay] Frick, 27 February 1911 [3 of 5]
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SCOTT & FOWLER CO. 590 FIFTH AVENUE (BET. 47th & 48th STS.) NEW YORK TELEPHONE CONNECTION CABLE ADDRESS "SCOLES, NEW YORK"
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went with him to Vienna, where the picture then was, and we were there about a month, in which time, to make a long story short, we induced the lawyer to come to our way of thinking and to advise the Prince to sell the picture. The arguments in favor of the sale were as follows - When Duc Robert, Elias' father, died in 1907, he left a very large family, several of whom were idiots - Although he left a fair sized fortune, there was not much left for the children individually, when it had all been equally divided among them according to Continental law - It was finally agreed that Elias was the only one of them who could afford to take the picture, as he had come in to a large fortune from his wife, an Austrian Archduchess. It was finally arranged that he should take the picture instead of 1,000,000 francs cash, which could have been his inheritance, and the money was to go to his brothers & sisters -