DEAR SIRS (it seemed absurd to write "Dear Gallery"),--In 1914 or
1915 I brought you a small oil painting, which you agreed to sell
or return to me. As I haven't heard from you since, I conclude
that there has been nothing doing in such pictures and I should
like to have it back. The picture is quite a small one, about the
size of an ordinary book, and so far as I recollect it portrays
a man looking at a horse, to see if its withers stand where they
did; or perhaps wondering whether he would sell it and buy a
scooter. As a matter of fact I never took particular notice of the
picture, not caring for it, but a friend of mine who knows it well
appears interested in it and wants to buy it. So please let me
have it back as soon as possible.
Yours faithfully,