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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 
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