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ALL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Washington, U.S.A.
      
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
INTERNATIONAL EXHCHANGES
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY
NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK
ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY
INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE

July 14, 1916.

Dear Mr. Freer:

I was very glad to receive your letter of the 12th instant, which certainly contains most interesting information, not only for the report but for our own enlightenment. I was wholly unaware that you had enlisted so many experts in the cataloguing and description of the collection, and their results will be eagerly awaited. Your collection is to me so much more appealing than other art collections in that it offers such inexhaustible fields for study, and you will appreciate what that means to one like me, with a scientific training.

Believe me,
Sincerely yours,
R Rathbun
Acting Secretary.

Charles L. Freer, Esquire, 
The Berkshire Inn,
Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

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