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Miss Jenkins writes me that both you, and Professor Griffith at the museum, have been most kind in interesting yourselves in my lectures at Detroit. She also says that you have been arousing interest in Cleveland, and have a prospect of arranging some alteration of lectures between Detroit and Cleveland. Indeed I am most interested in being able to fill up as many dates as possible between the 5th and the 22nd. 

The only thing that disappoints me is that Miss Jenkins writes of no lectures on the History of Japanese Art, to be given in Detroit. She mentions a course of three only, and those on other subjects. But knowing your own personal interest to hear what I have to say, and to see my hundreds of slides, on the intimate history of Japanese art itself, I can not but indulge the hope you may think it possible to have some such course given, even if in a more private and in a supplementary way. After all, this is my main subject, and the one in which I stand as the greatest discoverer and authority. I have more than 1000 slides to illustrate it. 

Yes, there is another disappointment, the failure of Ann Arbor University to come to terms