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Letter from [Henry Clay Frick] to Alice Creelman, with endorsement of Bankers Trust Co., 13 April 1915
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COPY COPY IN Ptg LETTER BOOK.
New York, April 15, 1915.
Dear Mrs. Creelman: I have agreed to pay on delivery to me, two hundred and fifteen thousand ($215,000.00) dollars for the portrait by Holbein of Thomas Cromwell, owned at present by Sir Hugh Lane; and in addition thereto, ten thousand ($10,000.00) dollars to you as commission. I have authorized the Bankers Trust Company to make payment to you and charge my account, they, however, to first show me the portrait on its arrival here in order that I may satisfy myself that it is the one I saw in London and which was cleaned by Dr. De Wilt of Knoedler & Company. I have asked the Bankers Trust Company to endorse this letter, so that you can assure your parties abroad that the money will be promptly paid on deliver of the portrait. Yours very sincerely,
Upon compliance with the terms of the
above letter of instructions and written
advices for Mr. H. C. Frick that the portrait
referred to above has been exhibited to him
and that he is satisfied that it is the one
he saw in London, we will make payment of
the amounts referred to therein for his
account, upon delivery of the portrait.
New York City April 13, 1915
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY by H. B. J. Vice President.
Mrs, James Creelman, 9 West 83rd Street, New York, N. Y.