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Show 2. December 22, 1959 We will have the icon covered by our insurance policy for a value of $5,000.00, if this seems satisfactory to you. It will be covered from the time it leaves your hands, until it is returned to you safely. May I point out that this insurance evaluation does not concern the express company, and for that reason I have suggested above that you simply give it a nominal value whan arranging for the shipment. If you will let me know when you intend to start the package on its way, I will see that our insurance policy is put into effect beginning on that date. I think that Professor Weitzmann has the necessary information concerning your icon and the circumstances of its presentation to you. However, if you care to send me a brief memorandum, I would then be able to include in the exhibition label all of the facts that you think pertinentA. ga in, let me assure you of my own, and the Library's very real appreciation of your courtesy. As for myself, I am what might be called a newcomer to Mt. Sinai, but I am learning fast thanks I am already stirred subject. to Professor Weitzmann's tutelage, and and fascinated by this rich and rewarding Please also convey our thanks^ to the other members of your family for consenting to be deprived of St. Catherine's presence. Yours very sincerely, Howard C. Rice, Jr., Cirief Department of Rare BOOKS Special Collections HCRtok |
