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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
October 13th, 1901.

Dear Tryon:--

I am glad to have your recent letter, and note the same fully.

Referring to the letter from Mr. Townsend, Art Director of the South Carolina Inter-state Exposition, asking for your paintings now at Buffalo, entitled "Early Spring-New England" and "Meadow-Morning", as requested by you, I have talked the matter over with Col. Hecker, and we are both entirely willing to leave the matter of loaning the same to Mr. Townsend entirely to your judgement.  Now, will you kindly determine the matter in such a way as will suit you best, and whatever your decision is it will be entirely satisfactory to us.

Mr. Townsend wrote me sometime ago, requesting the loan of one of my Whistlers now at Buffalo, but as I had already declined to loan it to at least a half-dozen other applicants, I did the same with Mr. Townsend.  Of course, in coming to this conclusion I was governed very largely by the fact that Mr. Whistler strongly objects to sending his work to exhibitions in America other than those of undoubted importance, and as yet I have been