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Detroit, Michigan,
June 11, 1917.

Memorandum for Colonel Frank J. Hecker to aid him in distributing certain articles belonging to me, and which are referred to in the paragraph in my Will, dated February 24th, 1917, in which he is requested to act as distributor, and which it is hoped he will do personally.

Dear Colonel Hecker:

As you know all of the objects in my possession, which have thus far been presented to the Smithsonian Institution, are labeled and enter-ed in the original Inventory of May 1906, the seven Appendices, number-ed I to VII, both inclusive, and the eighth which is, as yet, in unfin-ished form and written in long-hand -(the original Inventory and seven Appendices mentioned above are printed)- you and your associates will not, I trust, have any difficulty in identifying each and every article, already the property of the Smithsonian for they all bear Smithsonian Institution labels and are properly numbered and described in the Inventory and Appendices above mentioned. 

However, there remain still some objects in my possession which I wish eventually presented to the Smithsonian Institution. For various reasons, including a desire for further comparison and study I have thus far delayed transferred them to the Smithsonian Institu-tion, but I ask that you kindly do so at such time as the collection may be removed to Washington.

The objects referred to in the above paragraphs of the following:

42 Etchings, and
3 Lithographs, by J. McNeill Whistler

and 

1 Etching, and
2Lithographs, by Mrs. Whistler,

all of which are set forth in detail on typewritten sheets which are in