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Mr. Ganfield-
have already been made) he is anxious to have the " Rosa Corder " from your collection, and one or two specimens each, from the collections of Mr. Pope and Mr. Whittemore. He also,expects to use slides of Carlisle and the portrait of Whistler's mother, now in the Luxembourg. I also obtained from Colonel Hecker, the right to photograph his "Music-room."
Caffin proposes to give his first lecture in the Whistler Memorial House at Lowell, then to lecture at two or three Universities, including Yale and Harvard, and also in the larger cities east of the Mississippi.
Believing that you would approve of this plan, I have taken the liberty of giving Mr. Caffin a letter of introduction to Virginia, your housekeeper, requesting her to permit a photographer to make the slide of " Rosa Corder " and I have no doubt she will do so.