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F. L. Crocker

247 Park Avenue
New York

February 3rd,1937.

Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller,
Aiken, S.C.

Dear Flora:

We held a meeting of the Trustees of the Whitney Museum of American Art yesterday afternoon which was called suddenly because your mother thought that she would have to return to Miami on Friday and we had to get the business done. These were the transactions:

1. Mrs. Force's report was considered in draft form and approved and ordered inserted in the minutes.

2. Resolution adopted allowing any one trustee to enter the safe deposit box. This was necessary because I have held the Museum papers in my safe for the past year and a quarter for the reason that it was never convenient to get two trustees to take out time to attend at the Guaranty Trust Company safe deposit vaults and open the box. There are no securities or money transferable by manual delivery among the assets of the Museum and there will be none so the only reason we have a box is to prevent loss by fire or the elements.

3. The operating reports for the past year and one month and three days were examined and it was found that the total expenditures for the period aggregated, in round figures,