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85 ✓ No. 33 Ferry Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, October 18th.,1906. Dear Dewing:- Stephen left for the East last night and I will be in New York Saturday, Sunday, Monday and a part of Tuesday next. He will stop at the Prince George Hotel in Twenty-seventh Street, and I have told him to call upon you and to have his first sight of a real studio. If he comes, I hope you will let him have a view of your "factory". It will amuse him to see how things are made. This morning's mail brings a letter from Mr. McGuire, Director of the Corcoran Gallery of Washington, requesting me to loan the portrait of Elizabeth, and one each of the works of Thayer and Tryon. I enclose a copy of the letter for your perusal. What action should I take? I shall not answer McGuire until I hear from you. My first impulse is to tell him naturally I feel very deeply interested in seeing a thoroughly first-class