Viewing page 18 of 26

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

25
S
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
S.P. Langley.
Secretary

May 16, 1894.

My Dear Mr. Warner:

I fear I may have handicapped you in the medal by asking for so much lettering that you have been unduly crowded, and I am going to ask if you are willing to try again, in a treatment somewhat similar to that of the Draper Medal, (of which I sent you a photograph), with a three-quarter head of Henry, which may do fuller justice, than the profile, to the features of the inclosed photograph.

I hope that you will not consider that I am infringing on the province of the