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the responsibility of giving my lecture here on Thursday noon. If it had been an ordinary simple lecture, I might have postponed it or even shook it. I was strongly tempted to do so. But in this case it was impossible. This is the first of a most important series of 24 lectures, to be given once a week, at Thursday noon, before Miss Kearney's young ladies' school at 42nd St. The girls here are all daughters of New York's elite. No such school course in art has ever been given before. Probably no such comprehensive course is yet given in any of our Universities. The mothers, fathers and friends of the girls have been specially invited to the course, and some forty have registered as paying members of the class, - for the expense is very heavy on Miss Kearney. All these people are among the richest and most influential in New York. The day for the opening lecture, Nov. 8th, has been set for three weeks past. To have moved for a postponement of this first lecture, would have been to imperil the success of this whole unique course. I believe you will understand. 

Of course I am also sorry not to be present at your interviews with Matsuki. If there are many pieces which need my criticism I can only propose, or suggest, that Matsuki brings them, or the smaller ones, on to New York for me to see here the last of the week. Then I can report to you when you come on Monday.