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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
December 21st, 1905.

My dear Mr. Benedict:--
I am glad to have your good letter of the 19th instant: and, I am sure you will enjoy your collection still more after you shall have installed the articles in boxes and frames to suit your wishes. I trust to have the pleasure of seeing your collection during some of my future visits to New York.
After the first of March the additions now being made to my house will be completed and the principal objects of my collection can then be properly seen; and, nothing will give me more pleasure than to show such of them as may interest you to both yourself and Mrs. Benedict.
I do not know that I can add anything of consequence to what I have previously said concerning the portrait of FLORENCE LEYLAND; only that there does seem to be a persistent advance in prices of everything by whistler that comes into market.
You doubtless have heard of the sale of the portrait of IRVING last week at about twenty-five thousand dollars. It was interesting to me to see the Whistler fetch practically four times more than the Sargent. Surely, this is a wholesome