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#33 Ferry Avenue, East,
Detroit, Michigan.
February 15th, 1910.

Dikran Kelekian, Esq.,
2 Place Vendome,
Paris, France.
 
My dear Mr. Kelekian:- 

Your interesting letter of February 2nd came this morning and I hasten to reply.

I am much interested in what you wrote me concerning your textile collection and naturally enough, I should, with you, enjoy seeing it permanently housed in some American Museum. The value of such a collection to the future Art students of America would, of course, be very great.
 
If I could afford to buy your collection for the group of things which I have already presented to the American Nation, I would gladly do so, but my means, I regret to say, are insufficient. As you well know my means are very modest, and the purchase of a collection as important as yours would cripple my work in the other directions to which I have given so much time.

I agree with you that America is the place in which the collection could do the greatest amount of credit and the largest amount of good to the general public. And I trust that eventually some American Museum will appreciate the rare value of your collection

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