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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
February 18, 1904.

Dear Mr. Warren:--

Your kind letter of the 17th instant, containing the two newspaper clippings, came this morning, and I thank you for your goodness in sending them and for calling my attention to the error in the title of the "Princess of Porcelain". The syllable should be "du" instead of "des", although I find that it has been catalogued erroneously both ways.  It has been shown sometimes, too, without the prefix, "Rose and Silver". Under all the circumstances, it would be wiser to follow Mr. Whistler's original catalogue, or, at least, the earliest known to me, in which the title appeared as follows:--

"Rose and Silver - La Princess du Pays de la Porcelaine".

It is good of you to bear me in mind in connection with the hanging of the pictures and in examining the proof sheets of the catalogue, but I cannot reach Boston until Monday afternoon. My plans are to leave here on Sunday evening, the 21st, accompanied by my friend, Col. Hecker. We are due to arrive in