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No, 33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
November 1st.,1906.

Mrs. Augustus Saint-Gaudens,
Windsor, Vermont.

My dear Mrs. Saint-Gaudens:-

Owning to the illness of Mr. Saint-Gaudens I am taking the liberty of writing you concerning the McMillan monument for Washington. As you know, I am planning to spend the Winter in the Orient and shall be absent until late next Spring or early in the summer. In the meantime it seems to me important that there should be someone at home authorized to attend to the McMillan matter during my absence. At my request the meeting of the Executive Committee was held this morning and my committee was enlarged to three instead of one member as it formerly was. In accordance with my suggestion, my business partner and old-time friend, Colonel Frank J. Hecker and Mr. John Donaldson, Michigan's leading architect, were officially added to my committee and as one of them at least will be in Detroit practically all of the time during my absence, any action which may seem necessary can be taken up and completed without my aid.

At the Executive Committee's meeting this morning I informed the members present that Mr. Saint-Gaudens was quite