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Ansd Feby 7 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM WASHINGTON, D.C. OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION IN CHARGE U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM February 14, 1917. Mr. Charles L. Freer, The Plaza, New York City. Dear Mr. Freer: I am sending you under separate cover a photograph taken Feb. 10, showing the condition of building operations on that date. We have been having very low temperatures here, so low as to interrupt the cement work, but this morning it is warming up. I made an informal inspection yesterday and found everything in good shape. Laborers were putting the back filling against the foundations, and when they begin the walls on top of the latter they are prepared to rush them. I must say that I never saw such careful foundation work before; it is so perfect and clean cut that it will seem almost a pity to cover it up. Mr. Platt's representative, Mr. Daggett, knows his business, and the same may be said of the Fuller Company's director, Mr. Ashley. They are both also
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