RUBBER STAMP OFFICE OF H. C. FRICK RECEIVED JUL 14 1914 FORWARDED REFERRED ANSWERED /RUBBER STAMP

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LEFT LETTERHEAD M. KNOEDLER & Co. 556-558, FIFTH AVENUE NEW-YORK 15, OLD BOND ST, LONDON 17, PLACE VENDOME, PARIS TÉLÉPHONE CENTRAL 30-64 CABLE ADDRESSES: KNOEDLER, NEW-YORK KNOEDLER, LONDON KNOEDLER, PARIS /LEFT LETTERHEAD

RIGHT LETTERHEAD PARIS, July 3rd, 1914 /RIGHT LETTERHEAD

Mr. H. C. FRICK, Prides Crossing Mass.

Dear Mr. Frick,

I was very glad to find your letter of June 3rd on my return from Italy and to know that you were pleased with the progress in the new house.

I made up my mind to take my wife and my brother in law Balay to Italy and we had an ideal trip enjoying every minute of it. We first went to Rome, then to Orvieto, Perugia, Assise, Sienna, Florence, Bologna, Venice and Milan. I saw some wonderful pictures, some of which I would like to see in your collection, but unfortunately they cannot be bought; the painting that struck me the most was probably the Velasquez "Portrait of Pope Innocent X" in the Doria Collection. The trip was all the more agreeable because my wife enjoyed it so much.

We always seem to be kept busy with one thing or another and are making some sales, though of course we are prepared for more business.

I had a game of Golf with Charlie Phillips this mornig, I was 5 up on the first 9, and was a little unlucky in the second, but I finished 4 up; one of my ambitions has been realized; I am going to try to improve my game so that

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