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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON
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September 1, 1915.

Dear Mr. Freer:

Yours of the thirty-first ultimo from Kingston, N. Y., reaches me this morning, and I hasten to express my sympathy for you in your sad bereavement. Sorrows so near as these are very hard to bear, and have long been spared me, though I have lost this summer very close and dear friends. I can appreciate the feeling of loss that has come to you and trust that your own health will not be impaired by it. I was exceedingly glad to learn how greatly you had been benefited by the visit to California.

In writing Mr. Dannenberg, he was not told that the catalogue would be sent you, because I feared if he had this information he might trouble you unnecessarily. He was only assured that we would do what we could to call attention to his collection. By all means correspond with him as you please. He will, I know, be very glad to hear from you.

Mr. Walcott will be away for perhaps two months longer, and it will give me much pleasure to convey your message to him. This is the longest outing he has taken.

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