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33 Ferry Avenue East,
Detroit, Michigan,
February 22nd, 1908.

DEAR MR. KURTZ,
I am sending you a line to add a word or two to the official letter which will be sent you from New York in a day or two, to invite yourself and Mr. Allbright to act on an Executive or Central Committee, to take charge of a collection of Japanese and Chinese Art of the highest class, which Japanese daimios and collectors have promised to send to America.

A letter will be sent you later on, explaining everything clearly to both yourself and Mr. Allbright, but I deemed it only proper to say to you that I have been and am very deeply interested in the project. I am convinced that the collection will be of the greatest interest artistically and otherwise and that it will mark an epoch in educating the thousands of people in America, who are hungering for just the sort of uplift to be expected from the art of the Far East.

I know that you will willingly give to this work all of your strength and time that can be spared and I trust that you will explain the matter fully to Mr. Allbright,-in fact, show him this letter if you care to.

We want to include Buffalo in the circuit of cities to be visited, and we know that without your assistance such a stop would be most difficult. You and Mr. Allbright will put your shoulders to the wheel, I hope.

You are both keeping very well, I trust.

Always sincerely yours,
Charles L. Freer

MR. CHARLES M. KURTZ,
Director of the Buffalo Fine Arts Society,
Buffalo, N.Y.