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#33 Ferry Avenue, 
Detroit, Michigan,
August 19th, 1901.

My dear Mr. Montross:--
Your favor of the 15th instant is received, and carefully noted. I am glad that you have been the means of starting a new man in the right direction, and it is a pleasure to feel that he has acquired such an important painting by Tryon.
Yes, Dewing really was extravagant. Why did you let him flash his money so carelessly?
By the way, it is now high time you go short on Tryon. The oracle has at last spoken. The man who was the most largely responsible for the defeat of the proposed Bicentenary Memorial has opened his guns on the Dartmouth sailor. I enclose herewith the criticism. It is a fair illustration of Western views on modern art. 
I take pleasure in remitting herewith enclosed check for $2,750.00, in payment for the "New England Hills".
Yours sincerely, 
Charles L. Freer
N.E. Montross, Esq.,
#372 Fifth Avenue, 
New York City.