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Personal.
33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
September 12th, 1905.

Dear Mr. Canfield:-
It amused me very much to read the clipping you so kindly sent from "Leslie's Monthly Magazine". Yes, it is lovely! But pray tell me who is your counterfeit presentment. Who is this man of whiskers and leasure, who patronizes loan exhibits?

It pleased me to have Kennedy's portrait by Whistler in the Boston Exhibition, palmed off on inquisitive women as your own, and it is possible that some of the high stoppers of Paris who may have seen me frequently at the Memorial Exhibition, may have taken my matchless Van Dyke beard for your own. This, I think, solves the query , but I grieve to think of the fun I might have had in "Gay Paras", had I followed up the mistake and actually impersonated you. I hope to be wiser another time.

Thanks to your kindness, and the courtesy of your housekeeper, I saw in an excellent light the early sketch by Whistler. It is interesting, and doubtless genuine, but I don't think it is important enough to add to either your collection or mine. It should be our effort to control only such specimens of