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Charles Henry Hart, Esq, January 13, 1917. Page #4

and examination at any time you may fix, but unless we shall received from you without delay, whether after such inspection or without one, your unqualified withdrawal of the unjustified aspersion which you cast upon this great work of art, we must assume that your motive was malicious and that your action was not, as we supposed it, due to lack of information, but to a desire and intention to willfully injure our property and ourselves. Consequently we shall expect from you without delay an unqualified retraction and withdrawal of your baseless insinuation against this work of art, and if such be not forthcoming we shall place this matter in the hands of our legal representatives, Messrs. Stanchfield and Levy, with instructions for them to proceed in order to secure for us the redress which was believed the Law affords in such cases. Believe me, Your very truly, Note: See P.S. Page #5