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OAKLEY CHEMICAL CO.
22 THAMES STREET
NEW YORK

June 5th, 1916.

Mr. George Grey Barnard,
The Cloisters,
191st St. & Fort Washington Ave.,
New York City.

Dear Sir:-
I wish again to thank you, for all of us, for the opportunity you gave us, on Sunday afternoon, May 28th, for what was really a "revelation" to us.

Mrs. Ball and I shall look forward to a quiet several hours there, that we may be able to learn to know something of what you have and brought together.

I am sure that it must be as great a surprise and wonder to everyone else as it was to us, to find what you have done.

We have passed along Fort Washington Avenue many times with no intimation of what was there.

You may be sure that, if the opportunity remains, that we will see that friends hereafter do not miss it.

I can not but feel that our experience is a commentary on the way in which most of us have to live these days.

But there is another side to it,-and that is "life is so full."

All of which please take as just a very busy man's wish to express to you his appreciation of an experience such as it is hard to believe was an actual one.

We hope that on some subsequent visits, we may be fortunate enough to find you there.

I spoke to you of my old friendship with Karl Bitter. One of my closest friends, from the time I was quite a young man, in St. Louis, was Halsey C. Ives. You can understand what such a friendship meant to a young man.

Mrs. Ball studied under him, at the St. Louis Art School. It was then a part of the St. Louis Art Museum, of which I was, for some years, on the Board of Directors.

You were interested in the picture of our house at Spuyten Duyvil, and asked for it. I take pleasure in enclosing you a copy, also a view from the pergola, looking out over the river.

I also enclose you a card showing its location, and how to get there. I do not need to assure you that Mrs. Ball and I would be delighted if you can find opportunity to stop by when you are out near there in your machine. I can only hope that I also may have the good fortune to be at home when you do. 

Very truly yours,

D.G.Ball

DGB-GV