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#33 Ferry Avenue, 
Detroit, Michigan, 
March 28th, 1904.

My dear Mansfield:--

I returned to Detroit on Saturday last, too late to reply to your letter of the 24th instant. This morning, I am sending you a letter instead of a telegram, as requested, fearing that I could not make myself fully understood by wire.

I have carefully examined the revised list of Whistler etchings desired from my collection for the exhibition to be given at the Grolier Club, and I will cheerfully lend the specimens mentioned in the list enclosed herewith, which, you will observe, includes all of those asked for from the Haden Collection and such others as I possess, excepting the examples from the Menpes Collection and several others which I do not possess, namely:

W. 107. THE MODEL LYING DOWN.
undescribed. THE LITTLE MODEL SEATED.
undescribed. LUXEMBERG GARDENS.
undescribed. THE MARKET.

In my letter to you of February 2nd, I informed you that I was undecided as to exhibiting, at least for the present, any of my proofs from the Menpes Collection. I have given the matter