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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
December 7th, 1903.

Miss. Annie C. Volck,
secretary of Art Section,
Arundell Club,
Baltimore, Md.

Dear Madam:--

Your letter of the 4th instant is received and carefully noted.

In your mention of the "Secret Works" of the late James McNeill Whistler, you refer, undoubtedly, to a report which originated in one of the Chicago papers, and which I promptly denied. The articles of art left by the late Mr. Whistler were all bequeathed to his sister-in-law, Miss. Rosalind Birnie-Philip, and she has sole charge and control of the same.

The examples of Mr. Whistler's art owned by me are pledged for the Memorial Exhibition of Mr. Whistler's work to be given under the auspices of the Copley Society of Boston during next February and March, and I regret to say that I am not prepared at the present time to co-operate with other exhibitions. It may be, however, that some other year I might be inclined to do so.

Yours very truly, 

Charles L. Freer