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

Frederick S McGuire, Esquire,
Director, The Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-

Your letter of October twenty-seventh is received and carefully read, but it does not, I regret to say, remove my objections to Paragraph A of Article seven of your prospectus concerning prizes. Further consideration of the clause simply deepens my conviction that it is a very unjust prohibition and one that should be opposed by artists and collectors alike. Mr. Tryon feels as I do and writes me that he had notified you of his refusal to subscribe to the rule before you wrote to me inviting the loan of "Morning".

The Commitee's suggestion that an artist should "paint" a picture for prize competition rather than borrow one is, in my opinion, a dictatorial idea which every self respecting artist should reject. Furthermore, an artist does not "borrow" a picture when it is his own handiwork, which happens to have gone from his possession to that of some caretaker the art is always his own.