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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
November 2nd, 1905.

My dear Tryon:-

How are you? What sort of summer have you had? Have you had your fill of nature? And are you preparing for the battles of the coming winter?

I have been in correspondence, recently, with Mr. Trask, manager of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, who succeeds that fool Morris. Yesterday Mr. Trask came here personally and urged me to take one of the new rooms recently finished in the Academy, sky lighted, and hang it with a group of the work of yourself, Dewing, Thayer, and Whistler. He, offering, at the same time to leave the selection of the pictures, the hanging, and even the wall coloring to my choice.

I told him that because of Mr. Whistler's dislike for the management of the Academy I could not consistently loan any of his work. But I gave Mr. Trask the names of several owners of Whistler's things in this country from whom he may be able to secure say,three or four pictures. If not, then the Whistler's will be omitted.

I, also, said to him that I would be willing to co-operate with his ideas so far as the work of yourself, Dewing and Thayer is concerned, provided, - it would be agreeable to you three artists.

Now, how do you feel about it?

He, of course, wants the pictures not heretofore shown in Philadelphia, and the room is to be absolutely out of the hands of the jury and hanging committee. He proposed that Dewing, along with myself, be invited to do the hanging of our room.

The exhibition to be from January 22nd, next, to March 3rd. Contemporaneous with their annual exhibition.