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to secure the loan of pictures. I shall cast my lot with Paris because of my belief that Mr. Whistler cared little for the English view of art and a great deal for that of France.  Again, the English show is being gotten up by individuals who have proven traitorous to Mr. Whisters estate and are to closely mixed up in "the International Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers."

While the French Exhibition will be managed either by the authorities of the Luxembourg or the Louvre or, possibly both.

You will delight with me in the acquisition of the "Peacock Room' and a few other treasures by the master which have fallen under my future care.
The 'Peacock Room" has been taken out of the Leyland house and re erected [[re-erected]] in Obach's galleries where it will soon be publicaly [[publicly]] exhibited. after which it will be shipped to me.

The matter of my ownership at my own urgent request is to be kept secret for a time at least.

Please treat it confidentially.