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and were deficient in Knowledge of and in sympathy with art matters. Hence the Marsh Collection (made by our Minister to Italy ) has been suffered to lie idle until recently. Secretary Langley has recently filled up an art room in the Smithsonian building, and he has been making preparations to house a very fine collection of armor that is coming to the Institution from an American resident in Europe, and is to have one end of the building.

Dr. Adler, the librarian of the Institution, is a young man "learned in the lore of the Egyptians," a scholar and an executive - a rare combination. I have served with him for several years on the committee on admissions of the Cosmos Club, and have known of his work. He is planning much of the work by the new Carnegie Institution, in cooperation with President Gilman; and several days of each week he spends in New York, where he is starting a new Jewish institution, which was founded on condition that he would look after is beginnings.

I am sending you a history of the Smithsonian Institution and a copy of its charter. The more the matter is considered, the more complete it seems to me the adaptation of the Smithsonian to carry out your views in the manner you most desire. I hope you can make it convenient to meet Secretary Langley and Dr Adler either here or in New York.

Sincerely yours,
Charles Moore

Charles L. Freer