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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
November 11th, 1901

William T. Evans, Esq., 
Care, Messrs. Mills & Gibb,
Broadway & Grand Street,
New York City.

My dear Mr. Evans:--

I have just returned home after a two weeks' absence, and while in Boston last week your letter came, and my business partner, Col. Hecker opened the same, and advised me of its contents.

As I was to be in New York in a day or two, I decided it would be better before replying to consult with Mr. Dewing about "The Lady in Blue Gown", as I make it a rule always to consult with the artists of such pictures as I own, prior to consenting to loan them to exhibitions. I feel this is treatment due the artist. Well, I saw Dewing, and talked the matter over with him, and he is entirely willing that I should loan "The Lady in Blue Gown" for your forthcoming exhibition at the Lotus Club, and I have to-day written Mr. Coffin to forward 

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