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398 369 #33 Ferry Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, December 12th, 1905. My dear Mr. Morse:-- Thank you for your kind letter of December 11th. I am delighted with your plans for bringing out a book on Tibetan Art. Of course you are entirely welcome to reproduce my Tibetan paintings, now in your possession, for use in your forth-coming book or in any other way you may desire. Your scheme is certainly an excellent one and it will, I am sure, enable students and others to obtain through your work an excellent knowledge on a subject of which very little has thus far been written. The Kanaoka, or so-called, will astonish you as it has me. It differs entirely from Ririomin's, being richer and deeper and even more mysterious.than they. Its aesthetic quality, and I might add spiritual as well, are the particular things about the picture which make it so fascinating and powerful at the same time. I am off for Washington to-night and during the week will, doubtless, arrive at a closer understanding with the President as well as the Smithsonian people. Very sincerely yours, Charles L. Freer Charles J. Morse, Esq., #1825 Asbury Avenue, E v a n s t o n.