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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
December 23rd, 1905.

Dear Tryon:--
I have your kind note of the 20th instant and am glad that you have succeeded in restoring Miss Watson's painting to its original high order. I am sure that she, as well as myself, appreciates your goodness in the matter. I shall write her to-day about using the old frame, as you suggest, but I am sorry to say I cannot fore-tell her decision. She loves the painting as sincerely as any one possibly could, but she seems to feel an equal hatred for the old frame and you know how difficult it is to convince the gentler sex in all aesthetic matters.

Trusting you keep very well and wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, I remain,

Most sincerely yours,
Charles L Freer

D. W. Tryon, Esq.,
#230 Central Park South,
New York City.

P.S.
Colonel Hecker joins me in kindest Christmas greetings and says he is entirely willing to loan his "Moonlight" for the Philadelphia show.

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