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33 Ferry Avenue East,
Detroit, Michigan, Feb.21st, 1908.

MY DEAR MR. BINYON-
On my return this morning from a visit to New York, I found your kind letter of the fifth instant, enclosing samples of cartoon board,-jaconet, &c., for which I return my warmest thanks.

The information so fully given will be of much value in determining a final form in which to mount my Whistler Etchings.

I am quite confident that some American Publisher will be very glad to secure copies of your forthcoming book on Japanese Art. I think there should be a considerable sale in the following Cities: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago and Detroit. If you would care to have me do so, I will gladly send you a list of the dealers in the Cities named most likely to interest themselves in properly exhibiting the book, or possibly you would prefer to deal directly though one American Distributing Agent. In either event, I will be glad to give you suggestions, or,if you deem it better, I will cheerfully have a list made showing names of possible American purchasers.

You will be pleased to know that two very important preliminary meetings have been held in New York recently, for the purpose of considering ways and means for holding in several of the most prominent Cities in America an Exhibition of rare Chinese and Japanese Art, which the nobles and great private collectors of Japan have kindly consented to loan. The collection will be the finest ever assembled outside of Japan, and it is to be entirely free of commerce in any form.