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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
September 9th, 1901.

Wilson Eyre, Esq.,
#929 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Sir:-

Your kind letter of the 26th of August would have received prompt reply but for my absence with friends on a fishing trip.

I am so glad that you find Mr. Bixby so satisfactory a man to do business with.  After an acquaintance covering about ten years, I have nothing but praise to say for him.

The complete copies of your magazine have reached me, and have been greatly enjoyed.  I am sure that it will accomplish an immense amount of good.

You are very kind to think of reproducing photographs of our villa at Capri, but I am afraid the place is unworthy your further consideration.  To be sure, the garden is very charming.  It is, perhaps, the oldest garden on the Island, and is an agreeable mixture of formal and informal arrangement.  The house dates back two hundred years, and, like many other