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No. 33 Ferry Avenue, 
Detroit, Michigan,
October 31st.,1906.

Dear Thayer:- 

Your good letter of the twenty-ninth came this morning and I am glad that you feel disposed to contribute to the Corcoran Exhibition. I am in correspondence with the manager of the Corcoran Art Gallery concerning certain details, and if they can all be arranged satisfactorily I shall leave instructions to have "The Virgin" forwarded in my absence to the show.

I dislike the rule they have established concerning the giving of prizes. Simply because a painting has been transferred by the artist to an owner, it is ineligible to compete for the prizes. Why this course was pursued I cannot conceive, unless it was for the purpose of barring the work of half a dozen of the leading painters. The injustice of the thing to me is that although first-class works by the best men may be in the show alongside of very inferior pictures, the letter only will be eligible to competition. However, it may be that this rule may be altered. If it is not I doubt very much if Tryon will agree to contribute. Dewing, too, is now kicking sturdily against it. I will write fully to the Corcoran