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No. 33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
November 5th.,1906.

Dear Tyron:-

I have your kind note approving of my letter to Mr.McGuire of the Corcoran Gallery, and I have also received in the same mail a line from Dewing heartily approving, so that the matter shall stand just as it is. I shall send nothing from my collection and have already so notified Mr. McGuire. The whole scheme was doubtless conceived for the purpose of preventing the best exhibits from receiving the attention they deserve. It certainly was a good thing to hit on the head.

I am glad you are to be in New York next week and I should like so much to see you before I sail and to have a glimpse, at least, of your marine studies of the late Summer. My steamer, the "Hamburg" sails from New York at three o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday next, the fifteenth instant and that day I will, of course, be very much rushed, yet I could spend an hour with you that forenoon provided we cannot arrange to do it on Wednesday, the fourteenth instant. I shall leave here on Sunday night the eleventh and go to