A. Schaffer to Pratt

Containers:

Box SC-07 Box 1, Folder 1, Item SC07.01.1.006

Creator:

Schaffer, Alexander S.

Extent:

2 pages

Scope and content:

Transcription: Telephone Circle 7-0747 Cable Address "Russianart"

Alexander S. Schaffer 15 West 50th Street Rockefeller Center New York August 3, 1936

Dear Mrs. Pratt,

Thank you for your check on account and your kind inquiry about Mrs. Schaffer. She is feeling fine and is at the seashore at the present. I have given her your regards and she wishes to be remembered to you. She is getting along very nicely, but of course is anxiously awaiting the great event.

Sorry to hear about the trouble you have with your servants and hope you will be able to solve it to your satisfaction.

I have designed something myself for the little stand and am taking the liberty of going ahead with it, hoping that you will approve of it. It will be made of 14 karat gold, and will be larger than the one you had and entirely different, and will cost approximately $150.00. The only thing I am not certain about is the size, not having the egg here. I have to guess more or less from the old stand, and therefore would like very much to have the egg to take measurements.

On second thought I don't think this will be necessary, as I expect to be in Washington next Tuesday, the 11th, when I would like to go out to your place for an hour or so, to see

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your things, and at the same time I could measure the egg.

I think I could be in Fredericksburg around 2:00 P.M. and then take a train about 5:00 P.M. back to New York, unless it is necessary for me to stop over at Washington until Wednesday.

The heat is terrific in New York, and I am so glad that Mrs. Schaffer consented to go away.

Hoping that my letter finds you in the best of health, with kindest regards from Mrs. Schaffer and myself,

Sincerely yours, Alexanders S. Schaffer [signed]

Language:

English

Acquisition information:

Gift of Lillian Thomas Pratt.

Biographical / historical:

American--1

Physical description:

Paper

Physical facet:

Correspondence

Other descriptive data:

Schaffer Collection, Russian Imperial Treasures, Rockefeller Center

Digitization of the Lillian Thomas Pratt Archives has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Names:

Schaffer, Alexander S.

Places:

New York (N.Y.)

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