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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON

March 21, 1914.

My dear Mr. Freer:

Your letter of the 11th instant reached me promptly, and my only excuse for delay in replying is that we have been very busy in preparing for a special exhibition of portraits from the National Association of Portrait Painters, the arrangements for which have just been completed. The collection was shown in New York and reaches us from Pittsburgh.

I am very sorry that I could not go to New York for I should have greatly enjoyed seeing the exhibition of pottery in which you have taken so large a part. I have read about it in the New York papers, and readily appreciate its artistic interest and its importance in the history of the art of the Far East. But to have the privilege of learning about it from the beautiful volume you were so kind as to have sent me is almost like visiting the exhibition. This work is exceptionally fine in every particular, and makes a splendid record of the collection and of the entire subject to which the collection relates. You and the several other contributors to the exhibition are certainly to be congratulated on its success.

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