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Yesterday afternoon, in my absence from the office, a man called, whom George took for a reporter, and enquired if you had purchased the Peacock Room. George told him he knew nothing of it, and this morning a reporter from the Detroit Journal was in and showed a telegram that his paper recieved from New York to-day, the substance of which is as follows:--

"Although the sellers of the famous "Peacock Room", of the late artist, Jas. Whistler, refuse to divulge the name of the American purchaser, it has been learned, according to the London correspondent of the Herald, that he is one Ches. L. Freer of Detroit, Mich.

Reports that the Gainsborough Portrait, sold last Saturday for $63,500, and to be sent from London to the U. S., are denied."

Everything is all right at the house and ready for you. Things are quiet here.

Yours very truly, 
J M Kennedy

Charles L. Freer, Esq., 
C/o Waldorf-Astoria Hotel,
New York City.