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The Coburg Hotel,
Carlos Place,
Grosvenor Square.W.

July 25/05.

My dear Colonel,

It was a pleasure you gave to both Miss Birnie-Philip and myself in your cablegram of yesterday.

We had been nearly all of the afternoon with her lawyer rearranging her will and attending to some other legal matters and had stopped at my hotel for a cup of tea enroute to Kensington, and your cable was handed me along with the tea. We were naturally most glad to know that both the Paris pictures and those forwarded by Obach - (the Way collection) had arrived in good order. Thank you very much for the news --- Miss Birnie Philip asked to have her appreciation sent along with mine.

She is a very fine woman and has of course, been very deeply interested in the successful ending of the Paris Exhibition --- up to the safe return of even every sketch or etching lent. She goes back to her sister's country seat today, and I leave at noon for a short visit in Manchester at the Nordlingers, and in Liverpool with the Chapmans. I shall be back in London again next week and then go to Holland for a few days coming back here via Brussels where I am hoping to meet Miss Birnie Philip and her sister on their way to Homburg. August 15th Tom Jerome is to meet me here and spend three or four days with me --- August 22nd I sail for New York on the Coronia.

Your letter of July 12th is here and the weak kneed attitude of Buhl and Whitney in the Kennedy case does not at all surprise me. I judged from Dr. Mann's cable that such would be their position.

I shall write Albert Dreyfus from Manchester tomorrow concerning the reproductions of your painting and a few of mine which he desires. Miss Nordlinger is familiar with the journals he represents, is, in fact, a contributor to their columns and I can learn full particulars from her.

With all good messages to yourself and family,
Very sincerely yours
Charles L. Freer

Long hand.