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in graphite and underlined: Private blue stamp: OFFICE OF H. C. FRICK RECEIVED JUN 30 1911 red stamp: ? BREXTON 1845.
red stamp: 18, KING'S AVENUE, CLAPHAM PARK, S. W.
underlined: London, England.
16. 6. 11 Dear Sir I am very much obliged at you for the catalogue or rather list of the pictures you saw? at Boston, which you sent me strikethrough: last Dec. 19, last, I am very glad to get it. Many of the pictures are familiar to me. My chief reason in now writing is in connection with a paragraph in underlined: The Boston Transcript in which is stated that you have just bought the Gainsborough Portrait of the Hon underlined: Anne Duncombe. The lady in the portrait (who I have known for many years) is underlined: not the Hon. Anne Duncombe but her elder step-sister the Hon. Frances Duncombe ? Mrs. ?. The real history of this picture is known to only two persons, Mr. A?. Granes? & myself. I feel sure its history would interest you, & I sent herewith an account of it, written in ? much strikethrough: he the same lines as my text in [end of page]