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33 Ferry Avenue, East,
Detroit, Michigan,
February 15th, 1909.

Dear Doctor Webster:-
Your kind letter of the 13th, inst., is received while I am in the midst of some intensely interesting experiments with the Lumeire system of colored photography, so I am sending you a dictated answer.
Mr. Coburn, the celebrated photographer, has been working five consecutive days in trying to make lantern slides of the more important Whistlers in my collection. After four days of struggling, he succeeded in getting four satisfactory slides, the fifth day he was more successful, and by the end of the present week, he is hoping to obtain forty perfect colored reproductions. You, I am sure, will understand what fun we are having.
I appreciate, very much, your having called my attention to the pair of Corean Vases owned by Mr. Bonsabbott - they must be interesting specimens and were it not for the following facts, I would most gladly enter into competition for their purchase.
Last year, I advised Mr. S. Yamanaka to make a personal search in Corea for objects of Corean art. He finally decided to go, taking with him authority to buy for my account the finest specimens if native pottery obtainable; he returned to America in December and his purchases reached New York about ten days ago. He brought with him some very inter-