Duveen suspected that the motive for this friendly overture was to keep him from forcing the price up for the prospective buyer, and he politely declined.
In addition to ironing out discrepancies between the scores, he composed when he had to, supplying instrumental accompaniments, a missing song, an overture and other music to keep the work flowing.
Some analysts said it is also possible that the North was hoping that the overtures would encourage the United States to keep pressing the South to ease its preconditions for talks.
During Thursday's debate, Mr Miliband dismissed overtures from SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon to "work together" to keep the Conservatives out of power in the event of one party not winning enough seats to form a government on their own.
The South Bay Chamber Music Society made overtures to the city about two years ago, only to decide to keep its 10 annual concerts at Harbor College.
As appeals were made to keep him out of jail, and the fighter rejected overtures for a compromise to enlist, the stripped champion at his peak was kept out of the ring from March 22 , 1967 until Oct. 26, 1970.
To keep momentum in the peace process, the administration has continued diplomatic overtures to other Middle East countries.
To the consternation of the U.S., which has wanted to keep North Korea isolated, South Korean President Moon Jae-in has made multiple overtures to the North to move toward more normal relations.
Despite the diplomatic overtures, the Obama administration renewed Bush-era economic sanctions against Syria last month as a way to keep pressure on the country to cooperate.
Iran, welcoming overtures from gulf Arab states, said today that it was ready to discuss a security arrangement with them to keep big powers out of the region.
