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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
December 30th, 1903.

William S. Marchant, Esq.,
Goupil Galleries, #5 Regent Street,
London S. W.

My dear Sir:--
Your very interesting letter of December 18th came yesterday, and I have just cabled you to your London address:--
"Pastel.  Yes."

You will, I trust, understand from the message that its intention is to tell you that I will purchase the "pastel drawing of mother and child on a sofa, called "The Pearl", by Mr. Whistler", as described in your letter. I believe this to be one of the pastel drawings I have been locking for some time, and about which I have had some conversation with Miss. Birnie-Philip and Mrs. Whibley. It is very good of you, indeed, to have reserved the picture for me.

Of the lithograph, "Limehouse", I have a superb impression, bought at the time the stone was first printed from.

The American papers have given many details of the Paris sale at which you made so many purchases, and Mr. Canfield told me