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#33 Ferry Avenue, 
Detroit, Michigan,
November 18th, 1901. 

J. J. Cowan, Esq.,
#38 West Register Street, 
Edinburgh, Scotland. 

My dear Sir:--

Your kind letter, dated the 9th instant, came to hand this morning, and I thank you for having written me so fully. 

I note that "The Thames in Ice" may be a little delayed because of the Glasgow Exhibition. Very well, don't put yourself to any inconvenience in hurrying its shipment. Send it along to Mr. Marchant in your own good time, and I shall be very patient until it reaches me. If you can conveniently send the photographs mentioned, I would be very glad to receive them. 

I am much interested in your remarks concerning the lack of proper appreciation of Mr. Whistler's work in England, and I have never been able to understand why so intelligent and advanced a country should be so short-sighted concerning the work of the greatest figure of the Nineteenth Century in the broad field of the Fine Arts. 

Yours faithfully, 
Charles L Freer

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