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4 Via Dante Da Castiglione
Florence, Italy
Sept 9th, 1891

My dear Mrs. Stanford

Having the pleasure to acknowledge
the receipt of your valued letter of
Aug. 21st I beg to state in reply, that
Mrs. Schliemann has not in any
sense objected to the pictures being
sent to you, in fact they came to
me entirely subject to your order
and the object of my letter was to
find and what was best to be done,
as I had not heard further from
you about the status. Therefore
please find enclosed the two photo-
graphs, and the little note accom-
-panying them.

It would give me a great deal of
pleasure to make the portrait statue
in marble of Prof. Schliemann for you,
but I could not undertake to make a
seated portrait-figure which would be an
eight-feet-statue, were it standing
for less than $10,000.

The Sphinxes are both ready
to be packed, and will start off in
a few days for Leghorn where they
will be shipped to New York, and
from there in land to San Fran-
cisco where they will be cleared from
the custom house and then sent-
on to Palo Alto. This is the manner
in which I have sent all of my
shipments to California, excepting one
case, which I have not heard from
that went by sea.

Trusting the photos will reach you
safely, and that you will wait a little
until you see the sphinxes in their places
before you place the orders for the two
sitting figures. I remain dear Madam,

Yours very truly
William Couper