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form of amusement.

It must have delighted you to see this in him.

Oh, I was absolutely enchanted, and I, having been a dealer, was bored to death to have museum directors and people come to visit the collection, and I hated to show pictures to people that I didn't know personally and wouldn't otherwise naturally see. For instance, I never show pictures to people, except maybe the Rothchilds, because I like to go to see their collections in Europe. And if they want to come here, I'm willing to be present to show it to them, but short of them, I'm never here unless it's somebody I already know and like very much. If people want to come they can and they're shown around by somebody else. But he would actually be here and talk to the director of the Museum and enjoy himself explaining the pictures to the director, and I'm sure they had more than they'd ever had. But the pictures gave him the greatest possible pleasure as they did me. He bought only one picture that I didn't like which is the Monet, which I've sold. I bought one picture which he didn't like, which is the Picasso that is hanging upstairs and has a sign on the back of it which says, “This picture belongs to Mary Lasker and is not to be thought of aspart of the Albert Lasker Collection.” He had the sign made!

Well, after his death I had the book on the Collection